Thing is, adding extra amenities and generally improving crappy neighborhoods costs money... costs which get passed along to the house buyers, thus pricing the nicer areas out of reach of a lot of people. Which means those that can't afford the house prices, end up in other, different, shitty neighborhoods.
Shittiness is a lot like entropy, you can't get rid of it, just move it around.
The only real way to overcome the problem of crappy neighborhoods is to increase the general wealth of the population, thus increasing the resources (through taxation) to make less crappy residential areas.
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Date: 2021-11-18 12:50 am (UTC)Thing is, adding extra amenities and generally improving crappy neighborhoods costs money... costs which get passed along to the house buyers, thus pricing the nicer areas out of reach of a lot of people. Which means those that can't afford the house prices, end up in other, different, shitty neighborhoods.
Shittiness is a lot like entropy, you can't get rid of it, just move it around.
The only real way to overcome the problem of crappy neighborhoods is to increase the general wealth of the population, thus increasing the resources (through taxation) to make less crappy residential areas.