I think the problem is getting variances for zoning on the Air BnB properties where they don’t live. Variances are not guaranteed and applying for them are time-consuming and costly. Based on the new rules the zoning needs to be a certain way if you don’t live in the property. If it’s not zoned correctly, then you have to do a typical leasing arrangement and all the paperwork and clearances that go with it. Pre-regulation changes, Air BnB just made it easier to circumvent a lot of the requirements and costs associated with leasing out property.

Maybe not so much with market-rate housing, but affordable housing development and/or city-funded repair programs to existing homes does have an effect on crime. This was identified in a UPenn study with the PHDC: https://whyy.org/articles/how-fixing-leaky-roofs-reduced-crime-in-philly-neighborhoods/

The PHDC and UPenn did a study that identified a relationship between improving homes and a reduction in neighborhood crime, so there's that! Article here: https://whyy.org/articles/how-fixing-leaky-roofs-reduced-crime-in-philly-neighborhoods/

What an honor! A personal escort by an F-15!

I guess so, educate me then?

I feel like that’s a slippery slope, ethically speaking. It’s easy to say we should just forcibly remove someone who is presenting such obvious psychosis but what’s to stop a someone from claiming “mental illness” in bad faith on someone else just to have them carried away to a jail cell/crisis center? Aside from clear danger and life and death situations, there’s a reason we still require someone to go willingly into custody for mental illness.

Weccacoe playground, seger park, and shuylkill river park all come to mind.