Home Foreclosures and Neighborhood Crime Dynamics

Williams, Sonya; Galster, George; Verma, Nandita

doi:10.1080/02673037.2013.803041

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“…Within this context, it is possible to observe links between the spatial concentration of foreclosures and falling property values at the neighborhood level [22][23][24][25][26]. Relationships have also been observed with increases in crime rates [27][28][29][30][31] and racial segregation [32,33]. Several studies have also focused on the negative effects that increases in the number of foreclosures have had on public health [34][35][36][37] and on how different groups of local residents perceive the quality of life in their respective neighborhoods [38].…”

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Spatial Analysis of Clustering of Foreclosures in the Poorest-Quality Housing Urban Areas: Evidence from Catalan Cities

Gutiérrez

Arauzo‐Carod

2018

IJGI

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This paper uses data on housing stock owned by financial entities as a result of foreclosures to analyze (1) the spatial logic of Spain's mortgage crisis in urban areas, and (2) the characteristics of the types of housing most affected by this phenomenon. Nearest-Neighbor Index and Ripley's K function analyses were applied in two Catalan cities (Tarragona and Terrassa). The results obtained show that foreclosures tend to be concentrated in the most deprived neighborhoods. The general pattern of clustering also tends to be most intense for smaller and cheaper housing. Our findings show that home foreclosures have been concentrated in only a few neighborhoods and precisely in those containing the poorest-quality housing stock. They also provide new evidence of the characteristics and spatial patterns of the housing stock accumulated by banks in Catalonia as a result of the recent wave of evictions associated with foreclosures.

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Spatial Analysis of Clustering of Foreclosures in the Poorest-Quality Housing Urban Areas: Evidence from Catalan Cities

Gutiérrez

Arauzo‐Carod

2018

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“…Our study therefore attempted to address this with city-level fixed effects, which account for unchanging effects of crime levels on foreclosures. Another study attempted to address this question with longitudinal data in Chicago neighborhoods (about 10 tracts per neighborhood) from 1998-2009 and found that foreclosures temporally led to more property crime, but found no evidence that higher property crime rates led to more foreclosures (Williams, Galster, and Verma 2013). Nonetheless, the direction of causality in our study should be treated with caution.…”

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“…Whereas some cross-sectional studies have found a positive relationship between foreclosures and violent crime (Cui 2010;Ellen, Lacoe, and Sharygin 2013;Immergluck and Smith 2006;Stucky, Ottensmann, and Payton 2012) or foreclosures and property crime (Cui 2010;Stucky, Ottensmann, and Payton 2012;Teasdale, Clark, and Hinkle 2011), one study found no effect on property crime (Immergluck and Smith 2006) and another study suggested that the foreclosure and crime relationship is spurious once taking into account other neighborhood characteristics (Kirk and Hyra 2012). Studies using longitudinal data have found that more foreclosures lead to higher property crime rates Williams, Galster, and Verma 2013), but the evidence is mixed for violent crime Williams, 7 Galster, and Verma 2013). Given that Baumer and colleagues note that "…conclusions about the role of foreclosures in generating higher neighborhood crime rates are sensitive to the broader city context in which they occur" (Baumer, Wolff, and Arnio 2012: 597), the present study focuses on how the larger city context might impact the overall level of crime depending on the level of foreclosures.…”

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“…However, beyond the effect that foreclosures may have on the local block on which they occur, there are various theoretical reasons to expect that their impact may bleed into the broader spatial area of the neighborhood or even the broader community of the city. Indeed, a growing body of literature focuses on the relationship between the number of foreclosures in a neighborhood and crime rates (Immergluck and Smith 2006;Katz, Wallace, and Hedberg 2012;Kirk and Hyra 2012;Teasdale, Clark, and Hinkle 2011;Williams, Galster, and Verma 2013).…”

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Foreclosures and crime: A city-level analysis in Southern California of a dynamic process

Hipp

Chamberlain

2015

Social Science Research

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Although a growing body of research has examined and found a positive relationship between neighborhood crime and home foreclosures, some research suggests this relationship may not hold in all cities. This study uses city-level data to assess the relationship between foreclosures and crime by estimating longitudinal models with lags for monthly foreclosure and crime data in 128 cities from 1996 to 2011 in Southern California. We test whether these effects are stronger in cities with a combination of high economic inequality and high economic segregation; and whether they are stronger in cities with high racial/ethnic heterogeneity and high racial segregation. One month, and cumulative three month, six month, and 12-month lags of foreclosures are found to increase city level crime for all crimes except motor vehicle theft. The effect of foreclosures on these crime types is stronger in cities with simultaneously high levels of inequality but low levels of economic segregation. The effect of foreclosures on aggravated assault, robbery, and burglary is stronger in cities with simultaneously high levels of racial heterogeneity and low levels of racial segregation. On the other hand, foreclosures had a stronger effect on larceny and motor vehicle theft when they occurred in a city with simultaneously high levels of racial heterogeneity and high levels of racial segregation. There is evidence that the foreclosure crisis had large scale impacts on cities, leading to higher crime rates in cities hit harder by foreclosures. Nonetheless, the economic and racial characteristics of the city altered this effect.Keywords: cities; crime; foreclosures; social distance; social capital; segregation. Alyssa W. Chamberlain is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and CriminalJustice at Arizona State University. Her research interests focus on the nexus between neighborhood dynamics and crime, more specifically, the spatial and temporal relationship between neighborhood structural characteristics, social inequality and crime and how those factors shape how neighborhoods change over time. She also examines issues related to prisoner reentry and corrections. Whereas recent studies have focused on the relationship between foreclosures and crime at the geographic level of neighborhoods, there are various reasons why the impact of foreclosures may be felt at even larger geographic units such as cities. For one thing, the large magnitude of the foreclosure crisis implies that entire cities may experience very high rates of foreclosures. If this is indeed the case, do these cities suffer a rise in the level of crime as a consequence? Furthermore, the larger city context within which neighborhoods are situated likely plays a critical role in determining how the community may respond to various economic and financial hardships (Logan and Molotch 1987), such as the housing crisis. This implies that certain cities may be better equipped to redress various social problems that may arise. For example, although foreclosures...

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“…Wilson and Paulsen 2008;Kirk and Hyra 2012;Wallace et al 2012;Ellen et al 2013;Katz, et al 2013;Williams et al 2013;Wolff et al 2013). Universally, the foreclosure process involves several steps that occur over an extended period of time.…”

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confidence: 99%