Seminal Studies of Three Public Housing Policy Changes They also suggest that programs or incentives that result in greater integration of poor and nonpoor households may reduce violent crime without increasing property crime. Our results show that higher concentrations of poverty are associated with more crime. Property crime levels were less affected.
We find that by spreading recipients of housing aid throughout more of the city, overall levels of violent crime were lowered. We add to this body of research with a study of the effects of Chicago’s program to demolish its public housing developments and relocate residents to other areas of the city. Researchers who have studied recent changes in public housing have generally found that the changes are associated with lower levels of concentrated poverty and certain kinds of crime. Several studies have suggested otherwise. However, critics have argued that the program will simply displace crime to other parts of the city. Part of the rationale behind razing these developments is that doing so will eliminate areas of concentrated poverty and reduce some of the problems associated with it, such as high crime. In many cities, the large public housing developments built after World Wars I and II are being torn down. The old model of large, concentrated public housing developments managed by local public housing authorities has given way to a mixture of mixed-income developments that are privately managed and vouchers for private-market housing. But since the 1990s, public housing has changed dramatically. In places such as Chicago, public housing developments suffered some of the highest poverty rates in the city.
In the 1980s and early 1990s public housing in many US cities was associated with high levels of crime.
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