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Title: Blowing it up and knocking it down: The local and city-wide effects of demolishing high concentration public housing on crime

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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ISSN: 0094-1190

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Abstract: This paper estimates the effect that the closure and demolition of roughly 20,000 units of geographically concentrated high-rise public housing had on crime in Chicago. We estimate local effects of closures on crime in the neighborhoods where high-rises stood and in proximate neighborhoods. We also estimate the impact that households displaced from high-rises had on crime in the neighborhoods to which they moved and neighborhoods close to those. Overall, reductions in violent crime in and near the areas where high-rises were demolished greatly outweighed increases in violent crime associated with the arrival of displaced residents in new neighborhoods.

Url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119015000364

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Authors: Aliprantis, Dionissi; Hartley, Daniel

Periodical (Full): Urban Economics

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Volume: 88

Pages: 67-80

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Housing and Segregation, Other, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: United States