Does the red fox live near humans?

No, unless it has rabies.
The below answer is valid for UK fox attacks.

Foxes are timid animals, and have no significant history of attacks on humans. In England - UK, urban areas, there are an estimated 27 foxes per square mile, living in close proximity to humans, with no record of attacks.

This said, attacks have been recorded where a vixen fox feels the need to defend its cubs. Even in these circumstances the vixen is far more likely to attempt to flee, and will not try to fight unless evasion impossible.

One fox attack has been recorded in the urban UK. A pensioner was attacked in Edinburgh, apparently without provocation [1]. She escaped with a minor bite which may have become infected.

Occasional attacks in the countryside have been recorded. Rural foxes tend to be much larger than their city counterparts, owing to a larger range, and can prey on animals as large as lambs. However again these attacks are very rare, and tend to be in protection of young, or the result of the fox being attacked.

June 7th, 2010. It has just been reported that two young twin sisters, aged 9 months, were viciously mauled in their cots by two foxes who entered by an open window (it was a warm night). They are both in serious but stable conditions. Both have arm wounds but one has facial injuries as well. Obviously not a case of a vixen defending her cubs, but an opportunistic intrusion into a three storey house via an open window. In the article it also lists a fox attack on a young girl in 2003, via the backdoor of a home.
yes it would