[FreedomFriend]

What is it with HUD? How come they often seek to place "HUD HOMES" in middle income neighborhoods instead of low income neighborhoods, of which there would be no devaluing of property, therefore prohibiting blight?

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What is it with HUD? How come they often seek to place "HUD HOMES" in middle income neighborhoods instead of low income neighborhoods, of which there would be no devaluing of property, therefore prohibiting blight?

What HUD is trying to do is create one poorly maintained house on the every tenth block as opposed to putting everything together. They know that if they do that they'll create a slum. When you concentrate all of the public housing in one area you create Cabrini-Green or one of the other public housing disasters. The idea is that if you spread people out, the problems won't be as concentrated or noticable.