![]() Urban blight remediation programs can be cost-beneficial strategies that significantly and sustainably reduce firearm violence. Abandoned buildings and vacant lots are blighted structures seen daily by urban residents that may create physical opportunities for violence by sheltering illegal activity and illegal firearms. Respectively, taxpayer and societal returns on investment for the prevention of firearm violence were $5 and $79 for every dollar spent on abandoned building remediation and $26 and $333 for every dollar spent on vacant lot remediation.Ĭonclusions. Neither program significantly affected nonfirearm violence. We adjusted before–after percent changes and returns on investment in treated versus control groups for sociodemographic factors. We performed quasi-experimental analyses of the impacts and economic returns on investment of urban blight remediation programs involving 5112 abandoned buildings and vacant lots on the occurrence of firearm and nonfirearm violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1999 to 2013. ![]() To determine if blight remediation of abandoned buildings and vacant lots can be a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence in US cities. Send us feedback about these examples.Objectives. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'blight.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023 Medical debt stunts lives and blights futures. 2023 Irene’s preoccupation with young love and her hopes for the future are those of almost any young person Kiberlain’s thesis is that these are universal concerns, regardless of whether your adolescence is blighted by World War II or not. Jonathan Caulkins, Scientific American, 17 Apr. Joanna Slater, Washington Post, Not only those with opioid use disorder suffer, but also their families and communities, in a decades-long crisis that has blighted the country. Alida Becker, New York Times, Wiley was born in north Hartford, home to predominantly Black neighborhoods that were blighted by the construction of two interstates. Catherine Garcia, The Week, Providing different perspectives are a vagabonding Swedish artist and his British wife as well as an Aboriginal wrangler called Billy, whose skill as a cricket batsman has blighted his connection to his family traditions. Marcus Walker, wsj.com, The 446-unit property was blighted, criminal activity was high, and the kids who lived there went to a failing elementary school. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, In streets that were previously blighted by closed storefronts, locals complain about rising rents and the spread of Airbnb apartments. Verb The scourge of homelessness, an explosion of homelessness, blighting the city. 2023 Those glittering blue eyes of his seem incongruous with the shabbiness and blight of the movie’s high-risk, low-rent pool hall scene. 2023 The grant is meant to focus on low-income communities struggling with blight due to a lack of access to legal help, according to the group. Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023 Changes to a bill that would create a Lake County Convention Center, revitalize the Gary Metro Station and fund blight elimination in that city was amended and passed through the House Ways and Means Committee bringing it one step closer to passage. Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023 Kornblatt’s book shows just how beauty and blight can be interwoven, and in accepting one, the other might be embraced. ![]() Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023 Many jurisdictions with rent control have seen ongoing development, while some places without any tenant protections have seen housing blight and a lack of investment, said Matthew Losak, executive director of the Montgomery County Renters Alliance. ![]() Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023 The researchers used keanumycins to significantly clear this blight from hydrangea leaves. 2023 Violations include blight, debris, public rights of way in disrepair, mounds of dirt and solid waste storage, according to the lawsuit. Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. Noun As IndyStar reported, efforts to address the urban blight and crime at the complex stalled due to the legal fight. ![]()
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