Why Our Economic Crisis Is Causing More Crime
Vacant houses attract crime and make it more difficult for neighbors to purchase homeowners insurance. Dan Immergluck of Georgia Tech and Woodstock Institute researcher Geoff Smith, an increase in the foreclosure rate to about 2.8 foreclosures for every 100 owner-occupied properties in one year corresponds to an increase in neighborhood violent crime of approximately 6.7 percent.
Vacant properties can be attractive to vagrants, gangs, and drug users, providing a breeding ground for criminal activity. However, with determination and organization, citizens can fight back and eliminate crime in their neighborhoods.
Realtors now carry pepper spray and are taking self defense lessons just to do their jobs. I was interested to hear if any issues like this have happened in Concord so I emailed a couple local Realtors and asked. Realtors continue to advertise the area as “Brewers Hill” while various community development organizations concentrate on “Harambee North ,” a new name coined for everything north of Center St.
According to the Foreclosure Market Report it shows one in every 416 U.S. Foreclosures don’t just hurt the housing market, the nation is finding out. Besides a steady rise of tenantless residences, distinct increases have been seen in the crime rate and number of homeless citizens. Foreclosures increased 57 percent in the past year , according to numbers recently released by RealtyTrac. Most of the attention paid to foreclosures focuses on their effect on the economy.
Neighborhoods are changing as homes are abandoned or foreclosed on, he said. More young people are on the streets. Neighborhood stabilization funds, as these grants are known, help localities and non-profits obtain foreclosed housing, rehabilitate that housing and make it available to homebuyers. This helps reduce the number of vacant homes in highly impacted neighborhoods, thus eliminating blight and potential crime.
Crime is becoming more organized and sophisticated. Movement of people and commodities, including illegal commodities, is becoming easier and less easy to detect. Crime is becoming more and more international. For example in January 2005, two-thousand-four-hundred and fifty Dutch perpetrators were serving a prison sentence in more than eighty nine countries.
Crime is becoming increasingly international, and it is a big business. A recent United Nations report estimates that the global turnover of criminal organizations amounts to some 1,000 billion a year, considerably larger than the gross domestic product of Britain.
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