Since I finally said what no one wants to admit, that the area around campus is awful and full of low income housing. There is a fix, but it’s not realistic. Knock down all of university village, Eden’s Garden, and much of the unkept apartments…then build nice brew pubs, upscale apartments, restaurants, etc….then enrollment will go back up. Never going to happen. Plus, it’s cruel as where do those who need low income housing go? They were already pushed out due to the same sprawl (example: UIC, which knocked down the Robert Taylor homes and the Maxwell Street area to do EXACTLY what I just proposed)