[Namyak]

Exactly. The author can't admit that the policies he supports are what caused people to flee the cities in the first place, so instead he espouses forcing people to move back using the strong arm of the government.

[justshutupandtakeit]

"...what caused people to flee the cities in the first place,..."

"Policies" were not the reason people left the cities, which are NOT "hellholes" in any case. ECONOMICS is why the left. It was much less expensive to leave the city and move to a suburb because of lower land costs. This was essentially subsidized by governmental policies of building new highways and speeded up by integrationist federal court rulings.