Vox, May 2, 2016: Study: adding low-income housing to poor neighborhoods lowers crime and boosts property values
“If there’s one thing absolutely everybody knows about urban politics, it’s that nobody wants low-income housing built in their neighborhood. Breaking up concentrations of poverty by building subsidized housing in affluent areas sounds like a great idea, but rich people veto it. So instead we build it in neighborhoods that are already lower-income and disenfranchised, where it creates further burdens on already troubled places. So when possible, poor neighborhoods also veto creating new low-income housing — which leaves the very poorest residents with nowhere to go.”