<p>Kind of. During the 1980s Hyde Park was hit hard by the crack epidemic. The neighborhoods south of the University had some of the highest unemployment / crime rates in the nation, which generated real problems for University safety. As a result, the school felt one way to combat the decline of Hyde Park proper was not to have everyone move into dorms very close to campus, but rather to maintain a good neighbor policy of distributing them to apartments with managerial links to the school. This no doubt did a great deal to reduce petty theft, vandalism, drug dealing and so on as students reported such activities aggressively, and simultaneously pumped a good deal of money into the small, proprietor type establishments that dominate Hyde Park commercially. Today the community is doing much better (the crack epidemic waned), but there still is a big concern that if the on campus dorms grow too quickly, some streets farther from campus like 53rd will fall off a cliff in terms of prosperity and safety. The hope is that as the community grows economically the school will be able to pull back slowly towards a more unified campus, feeing up space for Hyde Park residents looking for affordable housing options (and creating a lot of good will in the process). At JHS noted, it is a very delicate issue for the school, as relations with non-University affiliates are often quite sour.</p>