Green empty lots make neighborhoods feel safer
Clean and green vacant lots make neighborhood residents feel safer and may be associated with reductions in certain gun crimes.
“Vacant lot greening changes the physical environment of a neighborhood from one that may promote crime and fear to one that may reduce crime and make people feel safer,” says lead author Eugenia C. Garvin, a resident in the department of emergency medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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