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...project in New York City, had a crime rate in 1968 twice that of Brownsville Houses, a similar development across the street. Police and public housing officials assumed the difference showed that Van Dyke housed more "problem" families -- broken homes, mothers on welfare and so on. A comparison of tenant characteristics indicated that, on the contrary, the two groups were virtually identical. The answer, Oscar Newman contends in Defensible Space, can be found in the contrasting designs of the two projects, between Van Dyke's high-rise slabs and Brownsville's low, walk-up and elevator buildings...
...complexes leads to unmanageable and disastrous situations. "In a high-rise, double-loaded corridor apartment tower, the only defensible space is the interior of the apartment itself; everything else is neither public nor private... a nether world of fear and crime." His alternative ("defensible space") returns autonomy to the tenant by making intruders conspicuously out of place. For example, he argues that families sharing a single entry in a low-rise building can control intruders more successfully than many families strung along a corridor on the tenth floor of a superblock...
Gill sees no contradiction between her tenant organizing activities and her work for the FBI and CIA. She favours nonviolent social change, she says, and objected to what she termed the SDS reliance on militant confrontation and its unpatriotic attitudes...
During her tenant organizing efforts. Gill came into contact with Whitlock, who was then serving as President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey's assistant for community affairs. Whitlock remembers her as the sincere but strange "major-domo" for the Mt. Auburn St. building, who brought deteriorating conditions in the building to his attention so that Harvard could take action...
...Another tenant said she and four other tenants in her building had been informed by the RCB that it would hold a hearing to consider evicting them for not paying an increased rent, even though the Board had not yet given the tenants a required hearing to dispute the rent increase...