Goals of the Crime Free Multi-Housing Program

• Facilitate a cooperative effort and positive relationship between apartment owners, managers, residents, police and other agencies in keeping illegal and nuisance activity off rental properties.
• Through a pro-active, rather than reactive, approach to crime and nuisance behaviour, create a safer and more habitable environment in which law abiding residents may live.
• Train apartment owners, managers and residents in simple terms to know what they can do now, fairly and legally, to solve the problem of illegal and nuisance activity on their rental properties.
  
• Help owners and managers know how and when to use the civil process as an effective means of preventing, reducing and eliminating crime and nuisance activity.
• Reduction of police calls for service in apartment communities in order to free up police resources for other matters.

(Note: "Crime Free" Multi-Housing does not mean those participating expect crime to be entirely eliminated but that an apartment community will not tolerate criminal behaviour on the part of its residents, their guests or others and they will seek to create as crime free of an environment as possible.)