commissioner of the ward that is not the case here they could have planned it better some of the displaced slumdwellers have found work in chembur shops or the vashi markets others like nadar travel to their old jobs and some have even sold their homes and moved back a tata institute of social sciences study showed that in one resettlement complex 446 of 3634 tenements had been rented out and 29 sold many here are also unemployed however in the complexes theres talk of a drug problem sex work and a fake documents racket we tell rickshawallahs that we want to go to govandi municipal colony otherwise they refuse because our area is notorious says sachin lubana a resident of the lallubhai resettlement complex sangramsinh nishamdar deputy commissioner of police zone 6 admits that petty crime has risen but denies the presence of organised gangs reluctant neighbours when people are displaced suddenly they lose the community structure that ensures social control says leena joshi director of tisss mward initiative agrees civic activist and chembur resident rajkumar sharma if you uproot pavement and slum people and put them in a far off place their livelihood is finished some of them will get into wrong ways of making money he blames the government for focusing only on the western suburbs the problem is aggravated by the increasingly segregated living conditions in the city joshi adds earlier neighbourhoods used to have mixed environments joshi says that allowed middleclass colonies and slum areas to develop a symbiotic relationship now towers are coming up in the old middleclass areas and everyone shops at malls in govandi insecurity has stoked the distrust between sudden neighbours the women in the slum rehabilitation complexes cant find domestic work in the indian oil colony middleclass families like sureshs prefer to hire help from shivaji nagar an old slum settlement further down the road suresh whose building has added cctvs to every floor blames the new complexes for incidents of chainsnatching and pickpocketing and for lowering govandis real estate value prices in other parts of chembur have gone up four times but here it has only doubled she says in turn nisa and her neighbours at natwarlal claim their complexes are targets for miscreants from shivaji nagar at a recent womens group meeting in their building a young man snatches a phone kept near the door and escapes despite the presence of a police chowkie in the compound even after seven years i still dont feel at home here says nisa