In recent decades, the Highlands has lived in the shadow of South Shore, which has had its share of struggles since the steady erosion of the black middle-class base beginning in the 1990s. South Shore was also hit hard by the foreclosure crisis and has since been flooded with low-income renters with subsidy vouchers. These are two elements that residents have linked to street crime. And then there’s the loss of neighborhood staples like the Urban Partnership Bank, formerly ShoreBank, and the Dominick’s grocer at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard, that has yet to be replaced.