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# Violence and public housing connected
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/violence-and-public-housing-connected-editor/
- Published: 2003-05-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:12:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

Those of us who live in the Pico neighborhood where there is an over concentration of multi-family low income housing projects have been dodging bullets for years. Bob Moncrief is responsible for the development of many of these projects. Then he raises the question is there any evidence of a connection between the low-income housing projects and the gun violence. In response, I refer everyone to a report commissioned by President Clinton.

“In The Crossfire: The impact of gun violence on public housing communities” which is online at www.hud.gov/focus/feb00/feb172000.html The findings include the following: “Persons residing in public housing are over twice as likely to suffer from firearm-related victimization as other members of the population. There is a strong correlation between income and violent crime; thus the low income population in public housing is especially vulnerable to gun violence.” The report also found “Gun-related crimes disproportionately impact... neighborhoods near public housing developments.”

Mr. Moncrief is well aware of the problems at the Cabrini-Green low income housing project in Chicago. The gang, drug and gun violence was so severe the only solution to reduce crime in the neighborhood was to vacate the building and demolish it.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 27, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052703.pdf?ref=smdp.com)