When people go to the city, people usually tell them to stay out of the hood. At least, that's what I'm told, since in my home town we don't have room for a hood, but we have some corn and that's kind of the same thing. The problem with the city is the hood, and its an entirely avoidable problem when people are actually set to think about how to deal with that. People are in specific concentrated areas, and that's an issue all on its own. When we talk about how the city faces deindustrialization, depopulation, and concentrated area effects, we have to think about how the hood came from that.
People came to the city for jobs, and decided having a family was a good idea because they had stability with their jobs, only to find out that its cheaper to have the labor moved elsewhere, so they were in trouble when they got that news. People lost jobs, and people were now in a new mess of trouble trying to find a new way to support their families. Jobs don't grow on trees unless you're an orange farmer looking for farmhands. Section 8 housing was a pretty solid answer for people that were really down on their luck, but with people that were low on money in an area all being placed in to one part of town, that creates a problem. With that many low income people in one spot, they can be an open wound in the city that gets infected with issues like drug dealers looking for new people to start dealing, or looking for people to get started on their product. Once the crime sets in, the wound gets larger. People don't want to open businesses in a place with crime starting to take a hold. As the crime takes a hold in the area, businesses won't have anything to do with that area, thus taking out the jobs that are in the area, leaving it even more impoverished and facing more people turning to crime.
With that, no one wants to put a school in there that is worth any real educational value, so the kids in that area then start to face the same issues, they don't have the education to get out of there and start to take themselves places, and all they end up learning is the way of the streets. If we want to start to change things, we need government jobs being placed in these areas to give these people a chance to start taking themselves out of the concentrated impoverished area, or what gets called the hood. If government officials can intervene on living situations, why can't they just start to work on creating job programs for some of these people, or placing job search facilities in some of these places, helping people find temporary jobs, and even implementing a job training facility, giving people the skills they need to find a decent job out in the world? These are solid solutions that of course require money, but in the end, wouldn't giving more people jobs end up boosting the economy anyway? Where's the loss?
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