The county was starting to close a ghetto housing complex located about 15 miles from my neighborhood, and started to move the same Section 8ers to apartment complexes located about 1 mile from my subdivision.
Within about one year, things started to change.....for the worse. Our nice local supermarket was frequented mostly by Food Stampers and welfare leeches. There were several parks located near by, and they became crime havens. There was a basketball court in one adjacent subdivision that the homeowners paid for. That basketball court would have 20-30 "urban" yutes on it every night. No one who lived in that subdivision would go near it.
The police blotter on the local papers stopped publishing the worst of what was going on, or masking the facts. I had a friend who is a local cop, and he gave me the inside info of the real crime going on.
Then, the Section 8ers became more blatant - and cars were broken into at night. Lots of them. Then we had a couple of home invasions.
I moved out years ago, and we drove through that town not too long ago. It is AMAZING to see how fast it has gone downhill.
By the way, good luck trying to get the state or local agent to tell you where the Section 8ers are. It seems to be a more closely guarded secret than the Manhattan project.
Other than live in a small town or inthe country with ways to defend yourself, I don’t know what else you can do. When my kids were growing up, we worked hard to be able to afford a nicer neighborhood so they wouldn’t be around bad influences, but that logic doesn’t work anymore.