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City-Funded Housing Repairs in Low-Income Neighborhoods Associated with Drop in Crime

July 21, 2021 sarah JonasResearch Results

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 at the University of Pennsylvania published today in JAMA Network Open.