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Re:Airbnb and Neighborhood Crime by wolverine876 on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:57PM (#27861707)
> crime proliferates around the public housing in New York, including in Bed Stuy

Could you provide support for that? I know many people suspect it and it's a well-known stereotype, but I don't know that it's true.

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Re:Airbnb and Neighborhood Crime by ipnon on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:06PM (#27862811)
Compare the NYPD crime map[0] with a map of the NYC Housing Authority's developments.[1]

[0] https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authorit...

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Re:Airbnb and Neighborhood Crime by wolverine876 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @03:54PM (#27868311)
Correlation is not causation. Maybe public housing is put in neighborhoods with high crime rates. Maybe poor neighborhoods tend to have both.
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