Is it the same reason crime has increased in many American cities?
"The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades."
Section 8 housing.
"Studies show that recipients of Section8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. One recent study publicized by HUD warned that policy makers should lower their expectations, because voucher recipients seemed not to be spreading out, as they had hoped, but clustering together. Galster theorizes that every neighborhood has its tipping point—a threshold well below a 40 percent poverty rate—beyond which crime explodes and other severe social problems set in. Pushing a greater number of neighborhoods past that tipping point is likely to produce more total crime. In 2003, the Brookings Institution published a list of the 15 cities where the number of high-poverty neighborhoods had declined the most. In recent years, most of those cities have also shown up as among the most violent in the U.S., according to FBI data."From Olmsted County Section 8 Voucher Program:
Section 8 is a tenant based rental assistance program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and administered by the OCHRA throughout Olmsted County. The Section 8 program is available in most areas of the nation. The assistance "follows" the participant rather than the participant having to live in a particular unit to receive the assistance. This means it's possible for the participant to move without losing the assistance.No mention is made about oversight regarding crime or any other condition put on the recipients for getting this assistance.
38. Rochester HOUSING CODE: REGISTRATION OF RENTAL UNITS
SEMCIL Community Accessible Housing List for theRochester Area
Section 8 subsidized housing.
The Hylands, Innsbruck, Northgate Plaza, Central Towers, Oakridge, Newbridge, Eastridge Estates, East Side Village, Rochester Square Apartments
Income Based Housing.
Brandywine Apartments, Civic Square Apartments, Bear Creek Apartments, Essex Place, Bandel Hills Townhomes
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Very interesting. The county attorney made it very plain how much it would cost us to support these thugs if they were in prison. Fact is, we have been supporting these thugs from the day they were born and are now supporting their their numerous offspring as well while they continue to terrorize, intimidate, and take over good neighborhoods. The more we support them, the more "entitled" they feel they are. At least in prison, they would be off our streets and in our neighborhoods. We "support" them either way.
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