Quote Originally Posted by ndavies View Post
You have it completely backwards. There is no way you are going to get high income people into the city without a functioning school system. the buildings are complete side issue. If the schools functioned, Students would be moving into the district. The increase in students would require either new buildings or these buildings to be reused.

Fix the school system and this problem goes away.
You're missing the joke. When your poorest residents don't have cars, getting rid of neighborhood schools is a great way to move them along to another neighborhood. Then, when they're gone, they'll be replaced by higher-earning couples with no children. Real estate values will rise, and there will be a developable parcel ready for a politically connected developer to come in and build profitable retail. Problem solved. [[Too bad about those poor folks, though.)