{"id":236,"date":"2007-09-04T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T22:08:58","slug":"replacing-neglect-with-peach-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Neglect With Peach Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/02\/realestate\/02nati.html?ex=1346385600&amp;en=71ca1139b3417c11&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\"><img ALT=\"NY Times photo\" SRC=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2007\/09\/01\/realestate\/600-nati-span.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNY Times photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually read the NY Times real estate section (I guess I guy can dream, but I&#8217;m never gonna live in any of those houses).  So I missed <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/02\/realestate\/02nati.html?ex=1346385600&amp;en=71ca1139b3417c11&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">this article<\/a> about former-Ithaca activist Paul Glover&#8217;s efforts to <strong>plant orchards on vacant lots in Philadelphia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Susan M. Wachter, a professor of real estate finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,  &#8230; found that cleaning up vacant land raised the value of adjacent homes by 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>[She also] found that planting trees on residential blocks citywide raised property values on the block by almost 10 percent. The increased market values are attributable to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153combination of landscape changing dramatically, and also a signal that someone is reinvesting in the neighborhood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Wachter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article mentions similar pioneering efforts in Austin and other cities.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.paulglover.org\/\">Glover<\/a> is famous here in Ithaca for inventing <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ithacahours.org\/\">Ithaca Hours<\/a>,  a local bartering currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times photo I don&#8217;t usually read the NY Times real estate section (I guess I guy can dream, but I&#8217;m never gonna live in any of those houses). So I missed this article about former-Ithaca activist Paul Glover&#8217;s efforts to plant orchards on vacant lots in Philadelphia. Susan M. Wachter, a professor of real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Replacing Neglect With Peach Trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fruit","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}