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@BrickMan
bike crime like any other is almost entirely run by demand. if no-one will buy a suspiciously cheap or obviously stolen bike then the need to supply will fade away.
the simple answer would be for everyone to be fully clued up on the subject and everyone behave in a decent manor. but this will never happen, not in our society, too many people are only too glad to be able to save a few bob on something by being in teh right place at the right time to receive said stolen bike, but then that action also requires someone else to have been in the wrong place at teh wrong time for their bike to have gone.
all swings and roundabouts. The housing thing is another one of those 'big games' you get, councils basically playing with peoples lives by moving troublemakers from a run down part of town to a better part of town in some vein effort to try to curb their behavior by transplanting them into an area which will guilt them into becoming better human beings, yeah right.
essentially like anything else, get clued up on bike security or expect to be ripped off at some point or another*
*this also applies to car servicing, double glazing sales, national ugandan lottery and mobile phone contracts.