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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?[/quote]

Is this conjecture or can you link some evidence? I haven’t seen anything about the guy who committed the stabbing , if he’s a voucher holder on CT Ave, etc. this incident aside is there data on higher crime in FH /chevy Chase due to voucher program?

Considering buying here (blocks away from FH metro) with young kids and want to make informed decision. [/quote]

Income and crime are strongly correlated. If the proportion of low-income households increases in an area, crime rates will typically increase to reflect this. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180846/. The violent crime rate among teenagers from households in the bottom 20% of the income distribution is around 6.25x higher than teenagers from households in the top 20% of the income distribution. [/quote]

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