Slumtown
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A 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.

EPISODE 1 - The Neighbours

People living in Edmonton’s inner-city communities are clashing with problem properties — needles on their lawns, people overdosing in their yards, fi...
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EPISODE 2 - The Landlords

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...
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EPISODE 3 - The Tenants

Why would anyone live in a house condemned by health authorities, plagued by vermin and mould and where crime and drug use is prolific? For some, it’s...
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EPISODE 4 - The Fighters

Frustrated by a lack of action from authorities, residents take the fight against problem properties into their own hands — buying lots with their ret...
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EPISODE 5 - The Questions

Months of investigating has raised more questions than answers. What’s going on in a recent sale — potentially worth $6 million — of problem propertie...
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Slumtown: The Trailer

A battle is brewing in Edmonton's inner city. Neighbours are terrified. Fights, overdoses and crime spill out from problem houses, many owned by a sma...
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