ha!
yes, interesting...
the cities have been where most cultural and social (and political) decay, deterioration, degeneracy occurs.. for many, many years...
nobody’s figured out how to prevent, reverse, fix it
My big idea (which is a non-starter) is to eliminate Welfare programs and revert to something along the lines of “40 acres and a mule”. Get people out of the cities if they can’t afford city rents. Send them to Montana or something and have them grow whatever food they can. Mail them boxes of powdered milk, cheese, butter, beans and rice as well. Take the cities back from the parasites. There is no reason to cram the “downtrodden” into the most expensive real estate in the country.
Of course, my idea is a little too close to sending people out into the field to pick cotton, so no one would support it. But the poor should work to support themselves. Small farms (5 acres or less?) might teach them something.