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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 M...

WHYY By Volunteers with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia create address signs for homes on the 6000 block of Callowhill Street in the city’s Haddington neighborhood on June 4, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Leah Spradley loves her house. It’s the only one she’s ever owned, and it’s been her home for the past 30 years. That said, she acknowledges that the property, on the 6000 block of Callowhill Street in West Philadelphia’s Haddington neighborhood, could use some improvement. She’s ...