Ensuring safety and security in these environments would be job #1 if this mission were anything close to legitimate. Zero chance for assault, zero chance for sexual assault, zero chance for robbery, zero chance for exposure to gangs or drug dealers or pimps, etc.
Remember the olden days of the Cormorant needle exchange? You had a permanent cluster of anti-social activity just a couple of metres beside the entrance to the Pacifica Housing apartments, filled with residents that had some degree of stability in their lives, enough to get their own place. Then they have to navigate a drug supermarket just to enter their home.