Cui, Lin. <br/><br/>
Foreclosure, Vacancy and Crime / 
Lin Cui, Randall Walsh. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2014. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w20593 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w20593. .
<br/><br/> October 2014. 
<br/><br/> This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a difference-in-difference research design is applied to a unique data set containing geocoded foreclosure and crime data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Results indicate that while foreclosure alone has no effect on crime, violent crime rates increase by roughly 19% once the foreclosed home becomes vacant -an effect that increases with length of vacancy. We find weak evidence suggesting a potential vacancy effect for property crime that is much lower in magnitude. 
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