Less money for legal challenges, more money for boiled rope.
Stick an “affordable housing” unit in the suburbs means that the area surrounding the unit becomes a target for crime.
Criminals from the unit are not going to target fellow housing unit residents, they will go steal and carjack from the suburbanites.
Probability model for crime in “the hood”
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/hood.htm
Summary
We have modeled violent victimization of whites in a racially mixed neighborhood. Our model is based on data collected by the Justice Department and reported in the NCVS. It paints a bleak picture for whites. As a neighborhood turns black, violent victimization of its white residents begins immediately. At first the risk is small, not much different from its previous all-white level. However, by the time the neighborhood reaches the half-black point, every white family of four has better than a one in three chance of being victimized within a year.
Two factors account for black-on-white violence.
1) Blacks are 3 times more likely to commit violent crime than whites, and
2) black thugs prefer white victims, selecting them 64 times more than white thugs choose black victims.
Most of the risk faced by whites, results from the predilection of black thugs to prey upon whites. As a neighborhood becomes overwhelmingly black, the risk curve for whites rises to ominous heights. In the last stages of transformation, the likelihood of a white being victimized within a year becomes a virtual certainty.
I knew a guy who grew up in government housing in Greenwich, CT.
It was the only “project” in town back in the 1960s/70s.
He showed it to me on Google maps once. Typical ugly 15 story brick apartment buildings. The houses directly behind it were worth well over a million(even ten years ago). He also showed me where the Bushes had lived, along with all the other Blue bloods.
He was the poorest kid in town. He was a looper(caddie) at the Greenwich Country Club. He was also one of the only white boys in that project.