[Biggirl]

I think it was more of a “safety issue” with the assumption that the suburbs simply was just safer then the cities.

[Arthur McGowan]

The increase in crime was engineered. The USHA pursued a policy of bringing Southern blacks into the ethnic neighborhoods, while the FHA pursued a policy of keeping blacks out of the suburbs. This was a carrot-and-stick policy to drive the ethnic Catholics out of their old neighborhoods out into the suburbs.