The PHS Philadelphia LandCare program cleans, greens, and stabilizes vacant lots to help return them to productive use. Since its start, more than 800 properties are now used for housing, commercial properties, and green spaces.\n\n
The LandCare program holds two primary initiatives: “Clean and Green” and Community LandCare. The “Clean and Green” program targets vacant parcels in neighborhoods without open or green spaces. PHS then hires city-based landscape contractors, who clean and mow the lots twice per month from April through October.
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Through the Community LandCare initiative, PHS works with 18 community organizations. Together, we hire local residents to perform landscape maintenance work on vacant lots in their neighborhoods.
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Residents living near cleaned and greened lots experience many health benefits. These benefits include decreased stress levels and increased exercise among local community members. A 2018 study of Philadelphia LandCare lots saw residents living near these spaces experienced a 40% decrease in feelings of depression. Another study showed a 29% decrease in gun violence in neighborhoods with Philadelphia LandCare lots. As the video below illustrates, a study by the Institute of Urban Research with funding by Analytics at Wharton showed properties within a 1,000-foot radius of a greened lot will experience, on average, a 4.3% rise in value after the first year and a 13% cumulative increase after six years.
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Today, PHS Philadelphia LandCare collaborates with PHS's ongoing workforce development program. Current landscape contractors and community organizations have hired and trained more than 25 people that have been incarcerated to perform landscape services in their communities. This action added 2,000 new vacant parcels to the LandCare maintenance inventory, bringing the 2021 total to more than 13,000 lots under Philadelphia LandCare management.
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小灵通费城土地保护计划清洁、绿化和稳定空置土地，以帮助它们恢复生产用途。自成立以来，已有800多处房产用于住宅、商业地产和绿地。
土地保护计划包括两项主要举措:“清洁与绿色”和社区土地保护。“清洁绿色”项目针对的是没有开放空间或绿地的社区的空置地块。然后，PHS雇佣城市景观承包商，从4月到10月，每月两次清理和割草。
通过社区土地护理计划，小灵通与18个社区组织合作。我们一起雇用当地居民在他们社区的空地上进行景观维护工作。
居住在清洁和绿化地段附近的居民体验到许多健康益处。这些好处包括降低压力水平和增加当地社区成员的锻炼。2018年对费城土地护理地段的研究居住在这些空间附近的居民抑郁感下降了40%。另一项研究表明枪支暴力减少29%在费城有土地管理中心的社区正如下面的视频所示，由沃顿商学院(Wharton) Analytics资助的城市研究所(Institute of Urban Research)进行的一项研究显示，在绿化地块周围1000英尺半径内的房产，在第一年之后平均会升值4.3%，六年后累计升值13%。
今天，费城小灵通土地护理与小灵通正在进行的劳动力发展计划合作。目前的景观承包商和社区组织已经雇佣和培训了超过25名被监禁的人在他们的社区提供景观服务。这一行动为土地护理维护库存增加了2000个新的空置地块，使2021年费城土地护理管理下的地块总数超过13,000个。
