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Seniors make a plea for peace

Date Added: 06-09-2005

Baltimore Sun - United States

Below: a story about senior who feel that they are being pushed out of their own space.  Read the excerpt.

Safety: Older residents in the city's public housing say an influx of disabled tenants has made their homes more dangerous.

By Sumathi Reddy
Sun Staff
Originally published August 29, 2005

There was a time when the senior citizens who call Lakeview Towers home lived comfortably.

They would adorn the hallways with Christmas lights and welcome mats, and while away the evening hours with bingo games and courtyard gossip.

No more.

In recent years, the elderly occupants of one of the city's high-rise public housing buildings complain, the dangers of the street have spilled into their isolated enclave - a result, they say, of lax security and an influx of younger, disabled residents, some of them recovering drug addicts, into the once-tranquil and seniors-only complex.

Longtime Lakeview residents say that prostitutes, drug dealers and drug users now have free rein in the building, a problem that some tenant council presidents say is duplicated in many of the city's other 18 mixed-used buildings.

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