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Maintaining Vacant Lots

Well-kept vacant lots can help reduce crime

Maintaining the yards of vacant properties helps reduce crime rates in urban neighborhoods, indicates a new study that's the most comprehensive to date. Ref. Source 1p.

Lots Vacant Maintaining

Greening vacant lots reduces feelings of depression in city dwellers. Greening vacant urban land significantly reduces feelings of depression and improves overall mental health for the surrounding residents, researchers show in a new randomized, controlled study. The findings have implications for cities across the United States, where 15 percent of land is deemed ''vacant'' and often blighted or filled with trash and overgrown vegetation. Source 3o.