Wasn't that the original idea of the Great Society "Urban Renewal" and more recently "Section 8 Housing"?
How's that workin' out?
No, in the end it is not simply about changing the environment. That's the snake oil called "Liberalism". Really, in the end it is about changing the heart. Then ultimately the culture will follow.
Quite frankly that has everything to do with Jesus and the Holy Spirit and not about putting rotten apples into new barrels. That just gives you more rotten apples and stinks up the barrels.
If you put a spoonful of wine into a barrel of sewage, you get ... sewage.
If you put a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of wine, you get ... sewage.