Doing Research in Public Housing: Implementation Issues from Philadelphia's 11 th Street Corridor Community Policing Program

This paper presents a review of a community policing/community problem-solving program that was initiated on the 11^th Street Corridor in North Philadelphia in 1996 and 1997. Herein, we forego a detailed outcome evaluation. Instead, our purpose is much more modest in that we attempt to provide those involved in public housing research and policy with a discussion of our experience with the implementation of the 11^th Street Program. Specifically, we identify issues encountered throughout program implementation, and then comment on methods that other researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can adopt to circumvent such problems.