Be cautious before assuming connections between the CHA Plan for Transformation and neighborhood crime trends

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  Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and an expert on gun policy and poverty, cautions against assuming connections between the CHA Plan for Transformation and neighborhood crime trends.
  “A lot of those families with vouchers ended up in neighborhoods that were already on the way down,” said Mr. Ludwig. “Before and after crime rates wouldn’t account for that.”
  In a 2005 study, Mr. Ludwig and two partners found that young people who moved with their families out of public housing with the help of federal vouchers ended up being arrested for violent crimes much less frequently than those who stayed behind.

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