‘They would be like jail cells’: Pineridge residents upset over 10-bedroom house

In the midst of a lodging crisis, uncovering affordable lodging successful Calgary isn’t easy.

In the assemblage of Pineridge there’s a azygous detached location — 2 floors with a afloat finished basement — that’s listed for merchantability for $450,000.

But it’s not the terms that’s turning heads — it’s the fig of bedrooms.

Neighbours tells Global News that 3 years ago, the 1,100-square-foot was turned into a 10-bedroom house.

Neighbours assertion to person seen up to 20 radical wrong and says constabulary person been called to the location galore times.

Lesley Gilmore, who has lived successful the neighbourhood since 2006, said it’s predominantly men who unrecorded there.

She said she’s seen unit successful the area, cause use, garbage piling up, and astatine 1 constituent a dormant idiosyncratic was removed from the home.

“They would beryllium similar jailhouse cells. There are 2 bathrooms. I don’t cognize if determination are due windows. I don’t cognize if radical are harmless successful this house,” said Gilmore.

While she says the concern has been overmuch amended the past six months, she says the location is present up for sale, truthful she’s acrophobic astir what could hap successful the future.

“This is simply a residential area,’ said Gilmore.

“I’m acrophobic astir the measurement of people, I’m acrophobic astir the prime of people.”

Another neighbour, Nazmeen Ali, echoes those concerns.

“I would similar it to beryllium sold to a azygous household or, you know, idiosyncratic that has kids and marque a bully usage of that location due to the fact that that’s however it was before, we had 2 families staying determination before.”

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A spokesperson for Vibrant Communities Calgary, the stewards the City of Calgary’s poorness simplification strategy, said the concern is becoming much communal successful Calgary.

“We are seeing a batch much of these rooming homes travel onto the marketplace with a batch of rooms for a smaller property, implicit 10 successful a bungalow,” said Meghan Reid.

“It’s precise concerning, overcrowding and they are not safe. With rents the mode they are we volition spot much and much of this.”

Global News reached retired to the City of Calgary to inquire astir the property.

The metropolis says it is alert of the spot and is successful the process of “reviewing it for onshore usage bylaw compliance and occurrence and gathering codification compliance.”