Restoring Quality of Life to Neighborhoods under Siege Project Summary: Maintaining a quality of life for residents in older, fragile neighborhoods is challenging when wild

Maintaining a quality of life for residents in older, fragile neighborhoods is challenging when wild parties, parking problems, loud music and peeing in the neighborhood peony’s dominates the scene. Lincoln, Nebraska’s oldest, poorest neighborhoods have a high percentage of non-owner occupied residents who are 1825 years old, transitory and feel no real relationship to the area. When increased calls for police intervention became routine many long time residents felt unsafe and expressed fear of continuing to live in those conditions. By the mid-1990’s most residents had resigned themselves to a diminished quality of life or unwillingly made plans to leave their homes for safer territory.