As someone who grew up in and lived in one of those "other," unnamed areas, I remember what we did long before Detroit's renaissance. Our streetlights started going out in the late 1980s, early 1990s. We had an active block club. We not only petitioned, but we had post lights in our yards. My folks and some of the neighbors installed motion lights.
It's not an either-or situation. It is both-and. You can do individual things within neighborhoods AND work for larger change across the city.
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