Objectives To determine if remediating blighted vacant urban land reduced firearm shooting incidents resulting in injury or death. Methods We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial in which we assigned 541 randomly selected vacant lots in Philadelphia,...
Objectives To determine if blight remediation of abandoned buildings and vacant lots can be a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence in US cities. Methods We performed quasi-experimental analyses of the impacts and economic returns on investment of urban...
Vacant and blighted urban land is a widespread and potentially risky environmental condition encountered by millions of people on a daily basis. About 15% of the land in US cities is deemed vacant or abandoned, an area roughly the size of Switzerland. In a citywide...
