Is this "fair"?

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Originally Posted by spence

This is what I mean, the yahoo article doesn't mention anything about supersized subsidies to move poor people, it's about rezoning.

Did you read this part of the yahoo article: "In fact, HUD in its rule suggests that local housing authorities augment rental vouchers to cover higher rents in wealthy suburbs and give poor minorities a list of landlords willing to lease units, along with relocation counselors.

The agency also urges housing authorities to "take regional approaches to HCV (Housing Choice Vouchers) mobility practices," including forming regional consortia to coordinate Section 8 relocations.

But even HUD-sponsored studies have found a link between Section 8 tenants and higher crime. The Urban Institute found in a 2012 study that tenants who moved in the last decade from inner-city public housing to Section 8 rentals in Atlanta and Chicago suburbs tended to bring crime with them."

How is it "fair" to provide vouchers to a select group but not to everybody? Of course, the transporting of higher crime into lower crime neighborhoods is obviously "fair."