What specific policies would help cities like Baltimore, Detroit, etc.

For Detroit, the police force needs to be privatised, and sold to OmniCorp.
The city is in dire need of some Robot-A-Cops.

Things have/are changing drastically in this country and if the city doesn’t change with the times, they atrophy and decline. What made these cities great does not exist in our world anymore. The world is a global economy and cars, steel, meat are available in other states, countries that erase the draw that made these cities great. These cities have to make themselves a desirable arena to do business. You said it yourself “manufacturing declined” but costs like legacy costs and health care commitments have broke the backs of these cities and lack of strong leadership with a vision is what is taking these cities down. They have to break the habits of old and get creative in what they do. Review of regulations, taxes, education and affordable housing should be priorities for the leaders of these cities as well as the hard decisions that will help unbury these cities from overwhelming debt and make their cities more hospitable and competitive to attract the good paying jobs they sorely need. They also seem to have a common thread of underfunded poorly supported police forces. Other cities are doing it so can they.

Clean up the streets,clean up the drug cartels,transport student to another area for schooling, give students a chance for a better future.
With all those empty buildings find a use for them ,create better outcomes by offering better opportunities.
It takes a village to raise a child fits well in this case , but if the village is broken, fix that.

Stop with the liberal nonsense. Take NC as an example. For decades the Dems ruled the government…the governor and the house/senate were all Dems. Liberal policies led the way. The state went deep into debt because of this. People were hurt because of this. Then people finally decided to give Repubs a chance. Suddenly (in the course of only a couple years), the budget went from millions in the hole to millions to the good. Unemployment has gone down, services are getting better and when a hurricane comes through, there is now a cushion of money to tap into to help people that need it. NC is now considered one of the hot places to move to.
If you look around our nation, you can see what liberal policies end up with. Look at California with their homeless crisis. Look at Baltimore with its miserable schools. Pick a place that Dems have controlled for 20 years and you will find it is falling apart and deep in debt. Taxes are high, business are fleeing, etc, etc, etc.

Liberal nonsense? I’ll show you some nonsense. How about the allegation that yellow dog democrats proved North Carolina a liberal bastion? How’s that for an accurate portrayal of reality? To begin an argument with the statement that yellow dog democrat dominance put North Carolina in the liberal camp is too ridiculous be taken seriously. Who in their right mind would describe NC as a liberal enclave ever????! As usual in ALL conservative backwaters, it is ALWAYS the liberal oases that struggle to pull their states from the ignorance defining their conservative driven destitution. It’s the places like Chapel Hill and Austin—the BLUE centers of intellectual advancement that stand as the defense against hateful regressive conservatism—everywhere.

I was unaware Baltimore was in such dire straits.
They have many resources which are not technologically threatened. I haven’t been there in decades, but when I left, they were on a definite upswing.

However, assuming it is failing, any of these cities can make a comeback.
One thing that can be done is to have an economic strategist evaluate the environment and determine how economic structure can improve. A look into public interest in maintaining the city would tell a lot. New Orleans was a ghost town for a while after Katrina, but residents returned, determined to rebuild, and thrive. Detroit, however, has seen a massive abandonment. To save that community, interest must be apparent.

It is a singular response to devastation. Each environment must be approached in an individual way. No community can make a comeback without citizen determination and involvement. Apathy of citizenry will mark the end of a community.

Wouldn’t it be nice we could get rid of the (insert political party) and all our problems would be solved?

Since most of the issues facing cities today stem from unemployment, governments need to put people to work. I read that Detroit is demolishing blocks of buildings and turning the land into farm plots. With many states losing farm land to housing, that sounds like a great idea.

@stanleybmanly do you live in NC? No? Then what do you know about the liberal politics that have ruled the state? So really, you have hot air and talking points that your liberal employers feed you to try passing off here.

I have to live in NC to declare that it is not a victim of liberalism? The place has been all over the news for years now as the laughing stock showcase of conservative corruption and scandal.

We’d have to have a copy of that cities budget to answer in detail.

One thing a city does is lessen restrictions and offer tax breaks, to developers. Our city voted a 110 million dollar deal in small town USA. A liberal council would have saved a field with a view and a bog. Thats just an example, but it boils down to priorities.

Reviving a declining city that has high crime and significant poverty isn’t easy.

Detroit is on waterfront, if rich people lived there in fancy homes and high rises the view would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I’d they found a way to attract people back to Detroit, it would likely displace many of the people who live there now, that’s part of the problem.

From what I have observed young adults, gay people (I’m sure I’ll get slammed for that stereotype) and new transfers to cities for jobs can help revive a city. Also, if a developer will renovate a huge area of the city it can be dramatic, but it’s a big money risk. By huge I mean a few blocks of shopping and residential very close by. You need to police it too.

As mentioned above, Detroit is doing some experiments with neighborhood farming. I’m waiting to see if that transforms parts of the city. I love the idea.

Maybe Detroit will eventually have mega buildings built that have work and residential in one building complex. It’s been theorized for a long time that we might live that way in the future. It makes sense in cold climates.

I haven’t been to Baltimore in years. Growing up (I grew up in Maryland, but we suburbs DC, I rarely went to Baltimore) we would hear about the crime in Baltimore and the high rate of teenage pregnancies, and other negatives I don’t remember well. There of course are some great things in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins, some very nice suburbs, and people used to like the Harbor Place, I assume they still do. I dance with a woman where I lived who lived and worked in Baltimore for years. She said where she worked was very unsafe.

You have to fix the crime. The crime keeps businesses and developers from going to cities. It’s a little bit chicken and egg.

Cities can give business huge tax breaks to help attract corporation Headquarters. It helps if there is decent education in or close to the city.

@seawulf575 North Carolina is backwards ultra-conservative cesspool and has been for the last 150 years, just saying !! I live here and even with you IDEA of liberal Democrats running the government. KKK still lives in rural NC.

It didn’t happen that way only in your ULTRA CONSERVATIVE mind; they were at best headed to moderates but you’re against them too.

Same shit that would help the opioid havens known as the bible-belt.

And Portland is really nice. This liberal dreamland. We have parks, we have a robust system of public transportation. We have buses that take you to trains that take you to trams going up a mountain. And we have Intel, and Nike, and many others. Seattle has Microsoft and Amazon..

Kentucky has? Pizza Hut and Lexmark. Quality Pizza and printers.