Originally Posted by raider.adam

I wouldn't say steady. I think there have been significant points to mark their decline.

Basically, the poor have to live somewhere and the poor have trouble maintaining homes due to lack of funds. Also, poor areas tend to have higher crime rates, so less middle class investment.

Add in the fact the poor have to live somewhere, they tend to congregate in groups due to housing pricing.

The best way to solve the problem is not throw money at it but to make sure the children and adults are properly educated (which they haven't been) and have jobs available for them to get out of low income life into middle income.

Building a bunch of new houses and giving them to people that can't afford to take care of them only helps a neighborhood for 5-10 years.

Government needs to give people the tools to have people improve their communities and the people then need to use them. That is what makes improvement sustainable.

Getting mad at a private corporation building a for profit building in the commercial sector, which will hopefully create jobs, is not the route to go.