security gates around the housing projects in california are they usefull?
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hi lanzedom,
What's actually happening? Are the govt planning on putting fencing around the projects?
What's their logic?
AJ
I've noticed that many of the new "gentrified" apartment complexes in Oakland have this impenetrable look to them. I guess the idea is to make people feel safe from strangers just walking into their buildings, but it would only make me feel even more vulnerable that the planners felt the neigbhorhood so dangerous that the residents need to be protected from it. As if you live in a fort in the Wild West with marauding natives just beyond the walls.
The new East Palo Alto apartment complexes have the same feel...I understand the rationale that this raises the perceived risk, but at the same time, most people who are buying have probably already done their research and know what they are getting themselves into. Renters may be a bit of a tougher sell, but no rational homebuyer is going into the process blind to the surrounding neighborhood. Personally, if I were buying property in a historically crime-laden neighborhood, increased security would be an incentive, not a deterrent.
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