It's great insight but I'm still not sure how it will fix hollowing out of downtown cores, especially in the short-term. If the solution is that we need to invest a lot more money in our justice system so that there's more capacity and less burn out, and with solutions that work like drug treatment courts, then so be it. I'm far more supportive of that type of solution than it is to continue destroying our downtowns across the country with whatever half-baked solution we continue to use.
Inner city desirability is something that we need to prioritize if we want sustainable development going into the future, rather than everyone with any sort of means just fleeing for the suburbs at first opportunity.
The current situation is not tenable in the long term.
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