Urban Initiatives Anti-Crime Program: First Annual Report to Congress

摘要

The report documents the presence of crime and fear in subsidized housing, outlines Urban Initiatives Anticrime Program accomplishments, and discusses how urban revitalization and crime prevention need to be linked in the future. The program came about as a result of the Public Housing Security Demonstration Act of 1978 and targets the neediest public housing sites in the country. Over $8 million comes from local contributions, indicating the extent of Federal - local and public - private cooperation. The program has established a management by objectives system in which each of the chosen sites is implementing several basic program areas, including improved management of public safety, rehabiliated anticrime facilities and better physical security design, and increased involvement of tenants in fighting crime. Other program areas are more youth employment, improved anticrime services for targeted groups, (i.e., the elderly, drug abusers), and areawide public / private partnerships targeting public housing sites and surrounding neighborhoods. The program requires local solutions to crime. An evaluation component is planned. Appendices include the Public Housing Security Demonstration Act, interagency agreements, program notices, a report on crime in public housing, and other material. Endnotes, data tables, and about 30 references are included. (Author abstract modified).