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# Redecorate to Regenerate
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2005/01/redecorate_to_r/
- Published: 2005-01-18T17:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:05:56.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

Apparently, a coat of paint and a ant-social behaviour hotline is all it needs to lift a sink estate out of deriliction and crime.

> [BBC NEWS | Magazine | A deprived area fights back:](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4183017.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "BBC NEWS | Magazine | A deprived area fights back")  
> From a distance, Strathmore Crescent in Newcastle resembles a well-ordered community. But look a little closer and you’ll spot the fake front doors, painted by artists disguising derelict houses as respectable homes.  
> This is north Benwell in Newcastle: An area blighted by crime where terrace houses were once sold for �1\. Today, some of those houses which were boarded up are being renovated as part of the drive to rebuild communities and combat anti-social behaviour.

Does that article feel a little too glib to anyone else?