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[quote=Anonymous]I feel awful complaining, but now this is a health and safety issue for my family.
In July, an elderly couple was evicted from 555 Thayer Ave apartment building. Actually two different apartments were evicted at that time, but only this couple and pretty much all of their belongings stayed. They acquired a tent and set up an encampment in the small wooded area between the apartment building and the condominium. Because they are elderly and the weather was so severe, my family and other neighbors have been looking out for them and suggested shelters, but they do not want to leave their belonging. We just give them food and water, sometimes toiletries. I think that was a mistake.
In mid August, an unhoused older man and older woman began joining them for hours each day, sometimes overnight. Now all four are drinking beer on either side of the sidewalk and they are very loud, sometimes cursing or arguing late into the night. Dog walkers are crossing the street. Parents with young children can’t walk on that side anymore. Pretty much everyone has reduced the handouts we were in the habit of giving the couple after the male “guest” demanded some as well. The hope was the coming cold weather would stop this.
School started last week and both of my teens walk past this encampment in the early hours of the morning. On Friday, they saw that “guests” were passed out next to the tent and the man’s khaki shorts were stained with diarrhea. I found these same shorts thrown under one of our vehicles when I left home yesterday. Besides the grossness, I have a compromised immune system. 
Yesterday, another tenant in the building who is on disability for mental illness, panhandles in the Safeway, and often gets into arguments with neighbors hung out at the encampment to drink beer and smoke. Then, he let the male “guest” into the building. My daughter encountered the guest in the laundry room pulling up his pants. She ran to tell DH. By the time DH got down there, the guy was gone. 
Our building has a new manager who is from VA. She isn’t taking any action on this issue. 
What can we do? Should we call the non-emergency number? [/quote]

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