You should see the literature they've assembled to deny any connection between crime and low-income housing. It's staggeringly dishonest.

The main thing is that a very small percentage of poor people commit any sort of crimes at all. So the idea that the random five or 10 low-income households that might move into your large neighborhood are going to impact your life in a negative way is fairly unlikely

That's the sort of logic that is commonplace in these studies.