ABSTRACT
The aim of the research reported in Crime Free Housing was to address the issue of crime in low-rise, largely suburban housing. By the early 1980s it was generally recognised that many of the high- and medium-rise public housing estates had problems of crime and vandalism and this had led to housing authorities abandoning that kind of development. It was assumed that most new housing would consist of conventional houses with at least some private garden or yard, and that this was likely to be the predominant form for dwellings for the foreseeable future. That assumption proved correct and we have seen continued low-rise housing development for the private sector and social housing. Also, through this period we have seen more and more high-rise public-sector housing of the 1960s being demolished.
