True, but how long would it STAY 'fixed'. Cabrini Green was touted as the answer to the sorry state of housing in Chicago, and its planners claimed it would give people 'hope' and help them change their lives. It didn't do anything of the sort. It was low-income, high-rise housing, and by the time the decision was made to tear it down, turned into a prison for the low-income decent people who were being tormented by the drug-using and drug-dealing thugs who also lived there.
In less than 30 years, the prevailing culture of many of the people who lived there ruined the place, the good intentions of the planners notwithstanding.
“True, but how long would it STAY ‘fixed’.”
Indeed! As my mother said, Poor folks got poor ways.
Even so not having gainful employment or any real hope for the future can bring out the worst in people just as honest work and earning their own way seems to do the opposite.
But as you point out, just giving things to people without asking for any effort or earning on their part is a waste of effort and worse.
The degradation of the cities represents the failure of many institutions, schools, churches, business, most particularly government.