Broken windows increase in public housing

A sharp increase in broken windows in city public housing doesn't bode well for the fight against crime, experts fear.

An audit shows that 6,000 public-housing apartments overseen by the New York City Housing Authority contained shattered windows in 2011 — a 945 percent increase from 2005.

"Housing conditions at NYCHA have become a laundry list of tenant frustration, from broken windows and peeling paint to faulty heaters and scurrying rats," city Comptroller Scott Stringer said after issuing the report Monday.

The phrase "broken windows" was coined by two criminal-justice professors to symbolize the deterioration of a community.

Their theory is that failing to address relatively small crimes, such as vandalism, leads to the spread of more serious crimes.

The NYPD has cracked down on minor crimes to prevent bigger ones since the early 1990s.

Stringer's report also found that nearly one-third of public-housing tenants reported water leaks in their apartments and that 37 percent had rodents.

"Significant pockets of our city's housing are deteriorating,'' Stringer said.

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