Association Between Structural Housing Repairs for Low-Income Homeowners and Neighborhood Crime.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The root causes of violent crime in Black urban neighborhoods are structural, including residential racial segregation and concentrated poverty. Previous work suggests that simple and scalable place-based environmental interventions can overcome the legacies of neighborhood disinvestment and have implications for health broadly and crime specifically.

Objective

To assess whether structural repairs to the homes of low-income owners are associated with a reduction in nearby crime.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study using difference-in-differences analysis included data from the City of Philadelphia Basic Systems Repair Program (BSRP) from January 1, 2006, through April 30, 2013. The unit of analysis was block faces (single street seg

SUBMITTER: South EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9435958 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature