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Walkabout Hong Kong Wan Chai area at night. The area around Jaffe Road, Fenwick, Locakhart Road, Luard where all the action is. See the street walkers who approach you. A walk-up to a Massage Shop on Queen’s Road. There is also a short clip on Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei

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From Detroit to Philadelphia to Baltimore, policy makers in America’s old industrial metropolises are struggling with the same problem: how to reverse the fortunes of decaying cities. Decades of economic decline and suburbanisation have left their city centres depressed and dangerous. But immigrants – whether students, migrants or refugees – could provide the solution to the spiral of decay. How can immigrants help revitalise a city?

First, immigrants can help transform an area simply by being resident. Newcomers rent or buy property which would otherwise be derelict, buy goods and services and pay income taxes. In cities like Detroit where decades of pension liabilities accumulated when the population was much larger, increasing the population of taxpayers can staunch the flow of cuts to police, schools, infrastructure and other services which make a city worth living in.

Second, immigrants can differ from normal residents in ways which may benefit struggling cities in particular. Because they often can’t get mortgages they move to the toughest–and so cheapest–neighbourhoods, sprucing up houses that natives have left abandoned for years. They usually settle in places where they know family or friends–which means that when an immigrant cluster forms, it attracts new residents from elsewhere. With repopulation, crime often falls, because more people are on the streets to deter scavengers or drug dealers.

Third, because they may not be able to get more ordinary jobs, immigrants set up businesses that can help transform depressed areas. In Baltimore for example 7% of the population was born abroad but 21% of the city’s businesses are owned by foreigners. The districts where they live are often the only places where restaurants and grocery shops outnumber liquor stores and bail bond merchants. That can end up attracting well-heeled natives: one study suggests that for every 1,000 immigrants arriving in an district, 250 natives may follow. Baltimore and Philadelphia, two areas where there are a reasonable number of jobs, have seen neighbourhoods transformed.

But the policy of luring immigrants to cities in decline isn’t working everywhere. Detroit, despite attracting some new immigrants, struggles to keep them in the city. Cities still have to fix the problems that scare off locals and immigrants alike: Terrible schools, poor infrastructure, crime, and most of all, the lack of good jobs nearby. Immigrants can help revitalise a city, but they cannot do it on their own.

Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?
Alicia Glen, the city’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said Amazon would probably get hardly any tax breaks
if it chose to locate its second headquarters in Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the city’s two traditional business centers.
“Nobody wants to get involved in it, nobody wants to have to do this,
but we’re in a competitive environment,” said Dennis M. Davin, secretary of community and economic development for Pennsylvania, where two cities — Philadelphia and Pittsburgh — are among the 20 finalists for the Amazon project.
Alluding to Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, she added, “Why should the richest man in the history of the world get money to open his business?”
Indeed, tax incentives tend to flow overwhelmingly to big, established companies, rather than to the local start-ups
that research has shown are a more significant source of job growth.
But she said it was frustrating to watch local governments — three of the 20 finalists for the Amazon
project are in the Washington area — roll out the red carpet for a multibillion-dollar corporation.
Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools
and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.
When New Jersey announced a $7 billion package of tax incentives to try to lure Amazon’s second headquarters to
Newark, local officials saw a chance to jump-start a city that has long struggled with poverty and joblessness.

In Boston, Sacramento and Philadelphia are 3 of the 10 cities that made Business Insiders list of places where home sellers are making a killing on the sale of their homes. The list was compiled by Zillow, a well known real estate and rental marketplace, according to the list home sellers are cashing out on record home values Zillow Chief Economist Dr.

In Boston, Sacramento and Philadelphia are 3 of the 10 cities that made Business Insiders list of places where home sellers are making a killing on the sale of their homes. The list was compiled by Zillow, a well known real estate and rental marketplace, according to the list home sellers are cashing out on record home values Zillow Chief Economist Dr.

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