Stop Public Housing in South Eastern Suburbs

Vulnerability to crime is a common problem on large public housing estates, Nine study areas were selected across three states – three involving major
physical/spatial interventions, three with predominantly social interventions and three ‘control’
areas without any formal regeneration program.

The study concluded that crime was endemic in areas of public housing concentration, hotspots were strongly associated with clusters of public housing stock and radiated out into surrounding private housing areas. Physical environmental factors were not found to be strongly associated with hotspots but low night illumination and lack of activity, particularly after dark, was.

These areas were public housing is being built tick all the above boxes and therefore we are petitioning to keep our streets safe for not only us but our children to come.

Crime has already begun showing in these areas and has shown evident in the recent news reports.