Below please find a recent post by the Niskanen Center, a nonprofit public policy organization named the “The Most Interesting Think Tank in America” by TIME Magazine in 2023.
Key Takeaways:
- In cities crime is highly concentrated and entrenched in a few small areas.
- Strategies to reduce crime that focus on community changes have strong theoretical and empirical support.
- The best place-based interventions reduce serious crimes by making areas less attractive to criminal behavior rather than relying on arrests or social services.
- Cleaning up blighted physical disorder in communities is key to effective crime prevention.
- Place-based interventions should be viewed as complements to effective and constitutional policing.
- Governments should provide matching grants and other incentives to encourage communities to make improvements that reduce crime
To view the article, please click here.
A related article from August 2022 by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) can be viewed by clicking here