Saturday, June 21, 2008

Section 8 Vouchers and Crime Correlated; Expect Media Indifference | NewsBusters.org

Section 8 Vouchers and Crime Correlated; Expect Media Indifference NewsBusters.org:

"About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski
merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section 8 rentals.
..... the match was near-perfect."


Read the whole post to get more information.

This doesn't clearly point to section 8 units causing crime to me, though it does suggest it. What it also suggests to me is that where there is a high rate of crime, land value and rental prices are lower. It is those areas that would attract a larger number of people with vouchers. Also many landlords don't want to take the vouchers, but landlords with properties that are in hard to rent areas would have to be more open to taking them. What it comes down to for me, in these high crime areas what came first the crime of the vouchers?

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