claim: says he "tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods."
author: tim mcginty
evidence_1: vacant and abandoned properties are linked to increased rates of crime ... it is  critical to match strategies for combating vacancy to neighborhood market  conditions. .... and abandoned properties with reduced property values,  increased crime, ... signal an unsupervised safe haven for criminal activity or a  target for theft of, for ...
evidence_2: says he "tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for  crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods." — politifact ohio on  friday, ...
evidence_3: aug 16, 2017 ... i find that tearing down one blighted building reduces crime, ... a house in  saginaw is $5,021, the city spent about $537 per crime reduced. ... over several  months, the house, which was waiting to be torn down, saw multiple break-ins. ...  but in many neighborhoods, the expected value of a rehabbed house ...
evidence_4: dec 20, 2013 ... banks are increasingly donating foreclosed homes to charities that ... homes over  to nonprofits, financial institutions reduce their ... some homes remain unsecured  shells used as havens by criminals and ... "i board it up, and the next day the  boards are torn down," he said. .... "that's what they do," he said.
evidence_5: vacant and abandoned homes drove down property values ..... she says. “that's  pretty crazy, a person living in a condemned house and having the electricity ...