City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods impacts crime rates
Investing in structural home repairs in historically segregated, low-income, Black and Latino neighborhoods has been associated with reduced crime rates. In Philadelphia, when a home received repairs through a city-funded program, total crime dropped by 21.9% on that block, and as the number of repaired houses on a block increased, instances of crime fell even further, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine published in Eugenia “Gina” South, an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and faculty director of the Penn Urban Health Lab.
In an effort to address an old housing stock and high levels of historical disinvestment in Philadelphia, the city implemented the Basic Systems Repair Program (BSRP) in 1995, which repairs structural damages to the homes of low-income owners, such as replacing an exterior wall to stop leaking, or elect
Structural home repairs in low-income neighborhoods linked with reduced crime rates
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City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods associated with drop in crime
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