If you want to take a shitty neighborhood and improve it, don't spend money on sidewalks and bullshit. Remove the criminals.
It's absolutely disgusting that the left thinks that poor people should be forced to live in crime infested shitholes.
It's because they don't get that there are lots of decent poor people, and if you just get rid of the criminals that are oppressing them, they can do fine on their own, and maybe even claw their way out of poverty.
But, when you elect criminals, they are absolutely not going to go against their own kind.