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Submitted by Shaun Ali on

The city has areas that are run down and unkempt resulting in community blight that is unattractive to homeowners and businesses. There are a large number (some 8000) abandoned buildings, although the city has started a demolition effort. Much of the housing stock is rental property providing no incentive for maintaining the property and we've seen limited landlord engagement to keep the properties up. Gary has seen a drop in population over the last decade, resulting in fewer jobs and businesses. This has led to buildings being abandoned and allowed to deteriorate. With fewer jobs, residents don't stay and the same thing happens to the homes. It looks like people don't care, so crime has found a foot hold praying on the residents who have stayed behind.

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The City and GPD would like to address ways to decrease crime that can be impacted by altering, changing, or improving the environmental design. We believe it could be a force-multiplier to partner with our SC2 initiative and demolition effort increasing our effectiveness by identifying ways to decrease crime as the environmental aspects like housing are addressed. From the analysis the OJP Diagnostic Center conducted, addressing crime prevention through environmental design was one of their recommendations that may affect perceptions of public safety.We would like to improve our knowledge of CPTED, build our capacity to apply its principles to the city, and have a positive effect on the public perceptions about the city and its public safety.
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