‘Unacceptable’: N.B. man finds 2 homeless people sleeping on his back step

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pen an open letter on Facebook to Moncton mayor Dawn Arnold and other elected officials responsible for overseeing the issue worsening throughout the area which was met with hundreds of reactions online.“I am sick of applauding temporary measures, I am sick of band-aid solutions, I am sick of hiding the issue,” he wrote in a Facebook post.“I understand these are humans in need, but it’s getting harder to be empathetic and I am now consciously choosing to value the safety of my staff and family over my empathy at this point.”He said his stream-of-consciousness letter stemmed from a place of building frustration after dealing with some previously similar incidents.“There’s a lot of people that sympathize and there’s a lot of people that are telling me they have the same frustrations because they’re scared for their security. They also seem frustrated with the lack of progress fixing this problem,” he said, adding that he’d like to see more accountability from government officials both municipally and provincially.One of those concerned residents is Lisa Gautreau, Arsenault’s next-door neighbour who moved back to Moncton from Montreal two years ago.

She says she doesn’t allow her nieces to play outside alone as she fears for their safety.“I grew up in Moncton, it was a city back then where you could leave your door unlocked at night. It’s not like that now,” she said.Gautreau said if she had known about the widespread issue prior to coming back, she likely wouldn’t have purchased a home in downtown Moncton.Following making the post, which included several screenshots of the incident from his building’s security camera, Arsenault said Arnold reached out to him, leading to a conversation about the city’s ongoing response to