One of the pillars of liberal social engineering is the belief that subsidies permitting poor people to move into nicer neighborhoods helps improve their life prospects. The multi-billion dollar Section 8 rent voucher program is premised on this notion, providing taxpayer funding for poor people to rent apartments in buildings and neighborhoods that house wealthier people. Many localities also require developers to provide a certain number of below-market rental units for poor people as a condition for approving new rental housing construction. A huge amount of money is being poured into projects promoting the integration of poor people into middle class neighborhoods. But a new large study funded by the federal government (who else?) has discovered that moving poor boys into richer neighborhoods is so disruptive that its effects are like those of PTSD. Sarah Sloat in The New Republic: According to the study authors, led by Harvard professor Ronald Kessler, boys who move into...(Read Full Post)