'We're all fed up': Saskatoon neighbourhood resident wants boarded up houses dealt with

A resident living off of Idylwyld Drive near 33rd Street are wondering why a growing assortment of unsightly properties in their area are not being dealt with.

A resident living off of Idylwyld Drive near 33rd Street are wondering why a growing assortment of unsightly properties in their area are not being dealt with.

Jana Thayer has lived on Aberdeen Place for 11 years, and with a growing number of boarded up houses nearby on adjacent streets like Stanley and Minto Place, she’s seeing an increase in activity that’s making it harder to feel safe in her own backyard.

Thayer works hard to upkeep her yard with a vegetable garden and flowers while she watches properties around her become abandoned or fall into disrepair.

“You can almost ask anybody in this neighbourhood, we’re all fed up with it, we pay really good taxes,” Thayer told CTV News.

“A golf ball came flying through our yard, bounced off our tree and had I been out there gardening, it would’ve hit me in the head,” she says.

That was this past weekend. She says she once had people standing on her fence trying to get in.

“They proceed to do criminal activity and proceed to enter into private property and then we are the ones who get nailed for it because nobody does anything about it,” according to Thayer.