Most people welcome the arrival of spring.
Not so at the Greenleaf Senior Dwellings, a newly renovated eight-story public apartment building in Southwest Washington. Warmer days and nights draw people out into the street from surrounding public housing projects, she said. Crowded living conditions spark tempers and drug deals explode in violence, so any outing involves risk. Those who live in Greenleaf Senior Dwellings brag that they're in the best of the 20 facilities the District maintains for low-income elderly tenants. But they are measuring with a plumb line that others wouldn't touch.