Slumtown
CBCA battle is brewing in Edmonton's inner city. Neighbours are terrified. Fights, overdoses and crime spill out from problem houses, many owned by a small group of people connected by one notorious landlord. CBC’s Elizabeth Hames investigates.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Category | Society & Culture | ||||
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With the murder of controversial landlord Abdullah Shah, Edmonton’s inner city residents are left wondering what’s next for their community. Will governments step up to deal with problem properties and the people who benefit off of them? Or will more... more
3 years after the first five episodes of Slumtown, notorious landlord Abdullah Shah is shot to death on his own driveway. Host Elizabeth Hames looks at who wanted him dead and why.
People living in Edmonton’s inner-city communities are clashing with problem properties — needles on their lawns, people overdosing in their yards, fights in the alleys. Residents fear for their safety and calls to authorities seem to fall on deaf ea... more
Host Elizabeth Hames investigates who owns the city’s problem properties … and finds there are dozens of them linked to one person. Meet the man who’s so powerful, neighbours are afraid to say his name out loud This episode has been updated to better... more
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- everytown everywhere as well-unwell
So human in the ways these individuals tell our collective story. You never once got in the way of anybody. Dignity on Display!
Your spoon full of raw unrefined sugar helps the bitter medicine of truth go down. Appreciate each and ever person in the podcast.
Apple Podcasts5NordicSol
United States2 years ago - Good (NIMBY) storytelling
Top quality journalism and production as I would expect from any CBC podcast. I’m sure the story is more nuanced and that this person is a slum lord but there isn’t really any effort to address the fact that poor people need a place to live… even if it’s an ugly house in a middle class neighborhood. I couldn’t make it past the second episode…
Apple Podcasts2MarimartreceUnited States3 years ago - More to the story
Great report about Edmonton’s most notorious slum landlord. But, I feel that there is so, so much more to this story. He was the owner of Dwayne’s Home, which was funded in part by the city to “solve” homelessness, in turn he sold drugs after NA meetings, charged individuals on AISH their entire cheque with the promise of providing 3 squares, shelter, clothing and education, but instead were lucky if they received one cold meal a day and a room shared with 3 others. Women weren’t allowed, but as... more
Apple Podcasts4AK-47-87
Canada3 years ago - Well done CBC
Listening to this in May 2022 when we are seeing the issues escalated and a new city council trying to deal with the issues, it is madder to see the previous elected officials and city managers etc did nothing at all to deal with the issues. This is an issue that seems to be spreading to other areas in the city and unfortunately it is a multi tiered problem with many underlying issues that is going to take years and many levels of government and community to resolve.
Apple Podcasts5Gaelen3102502600Canada3 years ago - NAME ALL THE PLAYERS
Name all the individuals behind the numbered companies associated with Shah
Apple Podcasts3shamenbaby45Canada4 years ago
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