It's hard to fix people. You can put money into the schools, but it won't matter if parents don't send their kids to school, their kids don't want to learn, or parents are afraid of sending their kids to school. You can fix up houses, but if there are still gangs running the street, then those houses won't be fixed for long. Money doesn't build a community. What I'd like to see is more money being spent on emergency services and the police department, since that would help in cutting down crime and making the areas more livable. For now, it seems the focus is making the downtown/Midtown/Corktown areas more trendy to attract young, wealthy people and build communities around those areas. It has to start somewhere, and the center of the city is the first place to start.