Gated Communities

1. Gated Communities Vs. Segregation

2. “Edgewater Park and Silver Beach Gardens are private cooperatives, with closed-off streets and a single point of entry. They have security guards and signs that forbid loitering, trespassing or soliciting. They also, as the lawsuit points out, have very few black people living within their cloistered confines—less than 1 percent”

3. “Rosemont is a paradox: the town's economy is entirely dependent on tourism, yet its citizens decided in 1995 to gate off half of the community, discouraging visitors from straying into residential areas”

4. “Opponents charge that gated communities are fundamentally antiegalitarian and ultimately create more problems than they solve. Gating a community may decrease the fear of crime, but it does so by fostering the illusion that criminals are outside the community, which is often not the case. “

5. Nina Lipton asked the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief whether he had any data on safety in gated versus nongated communities. "’We looked at that,’ Monroe said. The police and planning departments matched up communities as closely as they could, looking at income levels, multi-family, single-family and other factors. In terms of crime rates, Monroe said, ‘We saw no difference.