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"Studies show that recipients of Section 8 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."
American Murder Mystery, Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, July/august 2008, p
40 - 54
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