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Small-City Crime: Is Section 8 to Blame? is Tehachapi Next? In this month’s Atlantic magazine, journalist Hanna Rosin explores a recent trend of crime in large cities tapering off while crime in medium-sized cities climbed as much as 20 percent in a year. At least one report blames the surge in small-city crime on Section 8, a program established in the late 1970s to move public housing residents into better neighborhoods. Tennessee housing expert Phyllis Betts and her husband, Richard Janikowski, merged a map of crime locations with a housing map of Section 8 tenants and discovered a near-perfect match. But when an April 2008 study of Section 8 at the University of North Carolina mapped crime locations and compared them to locations of voucher residents, the results didn’t match up. In Durham, N.C., high-crime areas in fact housed “relatively few Section 8 residents.” Still, Section 8 beneficiaries are hardly welcome tenants in many places. A...
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