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See past issue #127258. This house now looks even worse and is literally falling apart. The wrap on it is mostly gone, and vagrants continue to be able to take shelter around it. The grass is high again.

On that note, the two rentals to the right of this on Freeman are falling apart, too. Do they meet minimum housing? There are always many people hanging out there. Are they exceeding capacity? 826 Martin is unsecured and has homeless people living in it, also falling down. 807 Martin continues to have people coming and going in masses and appears to be running some illicit activity from it and past capacity.

RPD had made a push way back with the mobile command bus in this area, and it unfortunately seems to have been again forgotten. Let's take a fresh look at these abandoned and problem properties and clean up the neighborhood. If your house has been boarded up for years with no activity towards renovating it, it's time to tear it down or sell it. They end up as blighted properties or homeless and drug shelters. There are cuts from the quad at 811 Davie to Martin on two lots that need to be secured. There are drugs dealers and prostitutes everywhere, and it deserves some special attention from the City.

Private investors are moving in and renovating stuff. They are doing the City a favor, and it's time the favor was returned.