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RED-Real Estate Developments control agency in New York
Controlling the Transition in Developments in New York
An area targeted for development is going to be developed sooner or later. This is inescapable but the when and the how are uncertain. During the transition, from undeveloped to fully develop a few get rich; most get hurt. The length of the transformation varies from a few years to several generations. Strategies go from direct–cutting basic services and harassing to perverse operations of criminal complicity.
The magnitude of developments is New York lately call for the constitution of an Agency that controls the when and in the how in the transition process. The agency will observe and study moves from the first steps of development and communicate with other agencies to stop fraudulent strategies used for real estate agents and developers. The agency don’t try to stop the development but to warranty humanity in its process. It will be a mediation agency with authority to negotiate improvements and measures to smooth violence on individuals.
The objective is clear: profit and the mechanisms fraudulent. A Two steps process:
ONE: crime concentrates. Crime concentration leaves room for real estate developers to start working. The results are proportional to the level of concentration. The most profitable case will be an area free of crime with a few bad spots, specific buildings, targets. The presence of Police in the streets increases. Perhaps the presence of police in the street pushed crime indoors, to the non-secure buildings. Or perhaps police efforts are not directed toward domestic crime, which is less visible than street crime…. The result is paradoxical; it is safe to walk in the streets but dangerous to be indoors.
TWO: crime enters the building. By not caring about security, real estate agents and landlords allow crime into targeted buildings. The crime inside buildings is not understood as a public threat. The inside of a building – indoors and private—does not appear to be the clear responsibility or jurisdiction of government forces. It is also hard to recognize that home sweet home is the most dangerous place to be… By cleaning up crime in the street and bringing it into buildings, the neighborhood appears safe and new residents can start filling up the new condos.
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