If you lived two doors from a half way house for 16 - 18 year olds

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Run by the YMCA
Helping young adults into the community\
Come form tough backgrounds/home life.

'young adults' regularly play very very loud music, waking me andkids up in the small hours
Mates hang around outside revving engines, drinking, and verbally abusing people who walk by

Warden is ineffective
'No Money' is the constant moan

What would you do? If police seem not to care?

contact the YMCA at a higher management level? sounds like you aren't entirely unsympathetic but a bit worn down.
have you spoken to the young people themselves or are they unapproachable?

I would contact your MP. I was the victim of a GBH by an alcoholic woman a while ago, got the police and MP involved as I believed it was a wider social issue than just that incident.

People have got the right to walk down the street without being verbally abused. Make a note of any incidents, and let the police know again, and your MP.

How awful. How long has this been going on? If you live two doors away do you have a sympathetic neighbour who actually lives next door to this place? Perhaps you could approach YMCA management together?

Well uncannily I used to manage a project for homeless young people for the YMCA and still work for them in a different role.

The hostel manager should be taking this very seriously since projects like this are reliant of the goodwill of the local community. They should have policies and procedures to ensure that young people aren't hanging around outside, drinking, being abusive etc. Money is not the issue - poor management clearly is.

I would contact the Chief Exec of the YMCA and put complaint in writing. Keep a log of incidents and continue to report to the police. Contact local community safety team to talk to Anti-social behaviour officer. There is a set of standards in housing management that are part of the Respect agenda. Community Safety leads on this and should get involved. Contact local authority housing dept and ask to speak to Supporting People (they fund and have lots of clout).

Hope you sort it out. As I say - money is NOT the issue. They should be issuing warnings to young people, and if necessary serving them with notice to quit if they can't live by the rules.

Ooh I was a hard old battleaxe back in those days!

mcnoodle thanks for that.