Fix up
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Both terms in one sentence
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Safe Haven: The heroine is able to afford a bus ticket, then able to rent and fix up a cottage, despite impulsively fleeing her abusive husband and only finding work as a waitress.
Source: "Friends" Rent Control - She continues to try to help people, but as she steadily grows more brutal and gets into more frequent altercations with the heroes, she realizes that she's better off trying to do good by putting the massive amounts of money she makes as a supervillain to work helping fix up her hometown.
Source: Hero with an F in Good
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