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Anyone who is interested in taking a ride through the Elmwood Ave and Norwood section of Warwick you will find a number of sober houses, Drug treatment centers and House of Hope. When people purchased homes in these area's, they did so because of good schools and the safety and well being of their families. Some families have felt disillusionment, because of the change in the environment of these areas, and no one with children and families can blame them. We do not know what the process is when people are placed in these homes and what background checks are done. We have come across drunken people, swearing and yelling, and the police has had to be called several times. We have seen men pissing in the yard, and garbage not being taken out for weeks on end, and begging for money at near by restaurants. Falina, I am sure if you had this next door to you, your tune and tone would change. You try to make people that speak out against these venues bad and uncaring, but that is far from the truth. They are realists. These organizations come into areas and care nothing about the houses they surround. They never do anything to make sure that the surrounding homeowners are not being effected in a negative way. They never ask!!! Many times they come into areas unopposed because no one knows they are coming until they have purchased the properties, and when we do know and ask questions we get people such as yourself the twist the nature of peoples true feelings as a negative, when in fact we just want the safety of our families taken into consideration as well as close monitoring of these properties.