Lacoe, Johanna; Ellen, Ingrid Gould - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2014
In the wake of the housing crisis there is growing concern that increased mortgage foreclosures may lead to physical … increases in local crime. While some recent research suggests that increased mortgage foreclosures in micro-neighborhoods cause … modest increases in crime (Ellen, Lacoe, and Sharygin, 2013; Cui, 2010), this paper considers whether foreclosures lead to …