How can you turn a problem village around?

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If it used to be a decent place but is now a hub of antisocial behaviour and crime, what can be done to get it back to how it was?

Do you know of anywhere that has been successfully transformed? I know the root cause is maybe the county council for allowing problem tenants in and problem landlords, but can anything else be done at a grass roots level? Incentives? Courses? I don't know. I just want my nice area back.

I'd start by finding like minded people, to try to restore a sense of community. A litter pick maybe? Have you a community centre?

I live in quite a large village which has had issues. The thing that helps is community spirit. The youth club is run by locals who really seem to get to know the local youth and if there's a local issue like kids with knives, anti social behaviour they address that with the kids. There's a food bank in the community centre and a lot of cheap/ free events that happen at the community centre and library.

Our area gets a bad reputation as it has quite a large amount of social housing compared to nearby towns and villages which are quite posh but the community spirit is second to none. Of course there's still issues but people really try to make it a nice place to live.

If there’s a village Facebook group perhaps you could become a member and start pushing positive posts, if you have the energy and the will then become active within the community, you will soon figure out what the issues are and what causes them.

Sometimes it just takes one person to change everything.

How do you classify a problem tenant? Is it the fact they are renting that is part of your problem? That is the way your post comes across.

In our village we had some play facilities upgraded which encouraged lots of parents and children to use the area more regularly and it was less of an isolated spot for teens to hang out and cause trouble. Someone also set up a community giving page which helps everyone feel like part of the community rather than a 'them and us' feeling. We have lots of community events and a youth centre. I think if there are people being antisocial the trick is to engage them in the community, if they feel part of it they will be more inclined to look after it.

I don't think it comes across that way at all. I'm talking about absent landlords that let houses out to known criminals and never vet them or even visit for inspections, just get the money and leave other decent TENANTS to deal with their chaotic lives.

Use nature as a way to unite? The RSPB included this story in their most recent notes from nature e-Mail. Making the town buzz

Well if your problem is known criminals then I doubt they have any regard for the impact on others. That is tough but it's happening everywhere unfortunately.
Police and Council are your only legal options.

Not at all.
Anyone reading the original post can see what the OP Means.

You can get good and bad tenants in the same way you can get good and bad home owners.
In no way is this a thread attacking renters in general, all the OP is saying is that they have more than their fair share of the rotten ones and I can fully appreciate how that can affect an area or village.