Improving community from the inside - 2003-03-23
James "Ervin" Allen is 69, blind and crippled. He lives in a little, three-room rented bungalow on Garwood Street. It's a modest house with simple furniture, a well-worn brown couch and a kitchen chair with an injured leg leveled by a brick.
"There's open drug dealing, prostitution, gambling, threatening behavior. You see the older residents come out in the morning, but by afternoon, everybody's back in, and that's where they stay. It's tantamount to terrorism by default."
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