Abandoned houses (AH) are focal points in urban communities by threatening local security,
destroying housing markets, and burdening government finance in the US legacy cities. In …

Planners and policymakers are increasingly calling for investment into walkable
neighborhoods as a means for creating new social, economic, and cultural value in cities …

Excessive vacant housing (VH) has been often linked to negative externalities (eg, crime,
arson, property devaluation, or disconnected neighborhoods). As a result, governments and …

Objectives: From 2010 through 2015, the city of Buffalo demolished over 2,000 residences.
This study examines whether those demolitions resulted in crime reductions. Methods …

Abandoned houses (AH) present an utmost challenge confronting the urban environment in
contemporary US shrinking cities. Data accessibility is a major hurdle that prevents the …

The intersection of neighborhood-level processes and crime has received a wealth of
attention in the criminological literature over the last century. In line with this tradition, the …

A key indicator of urban change is construction, demolition, and renovation. Although these
development activities are often interrelated, they are typically studied independent of one …

Abstract After the Great Recession, a historically high level of foreclosures resulted in an
accumulation of vacant properties in the USA. However, much of our recent knowledge …

Publicly-funded demolition of vacant structures is an essential tool used in shrinking cities to
eliminate nuisances and, often, reduce vacancy rates. Concerning the latter, however, when …

Vacant and abandoned land can be public eyesores that can potentially result in
neighborhood distress in the long term. In some cases, the contextual conditions of a …