Originally Posted by Guest

African Americans are still concentrated in neighborhoods with high poverty and still lack full access to decent housing | Economic Policy Institute

Let's talk about how these places can be improved. Maybe some of the TOTVers have some wisdom in this area.

I lived in one of these drug invested and mainly poor black neighborhoods in the Summer of 1988 in Minneapolis and basically would not go out after dark because of the often drug deals going on across the street in the park. Shots would sometimes ring out at night.

The rent was very cheap that Summer.

Part of the problem back then was that people were still judged by the color of their skin and that would close many doors that were wide open to people of other colors.

That still seems to be a problem. As does the extremely limited resources going to these neighborhoods and the attractiveness of the relative very easy but very risky drug trade.