"Fix the locks! Put up security cameras!" called out Olivia Taylor from a corner of the Breukelen Houses’ Community Center in southeast Brooklyn. Taylor interrupted the crowd’s silent focus on the City Council’s latest public housing hearing, until order was restored with several strikes of the committee chair’s gavel.

Taylor was one of several public housing residents, lawmakers, and advocates who gathered at the public housing complex on September 16 for a hearing to discuss the roll out and progress of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $210.5 million plan to reduce violent crime in public housing.

Between 2009 and 2014, overall crime across the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) 334 developments rose 30%, according to NYPD Housing Bureau Chief Carlos Gomez, a key speaker at the hearing.

The spike in crime is explained, in part, by rising incidences of domestic violence and gang activity.

The Mayor’s plan is coordinated among ten different agencies and targets 15 public housing developments, where 17 percent of NYCHA’s violent crime has been concentrated for the past three years.

Since the program’s launch on July 8th, the NYPD’s Housing Bureau has reported an overall drop in crime across NYCHA, though certain developments and categories of crime have seen increases.

Tuesday’s hearing was the second ever to take place at a public housing complex, both coming this year under the leadership of new City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and new Public Housing Committee Chair Ritchie Torres.

The Breukelen Center was chosen as the site due to its proximity to the Boulevard Houses, the development where 6-year old Prince Joshua (PJ) Avitto and 7-year old Mikayla Capers were brutally stabbed in June.

A recently paroled, paranoid-schizophrenic man wandered into their building through doors with broken locks and in the absence of security cameras.

He got into an elevator with both children, who were en route to get ice pops, where he stabbed them.