In chapter 15 Jane Jacobs talk about sluming and unsluming of the neighborhoods. According to Jacobs it is not so easy to unslum the area, because it needs greater amount of public money, but since the area is already undesirable and unattractive, no investments are flowing in. She gives an example of the present urban renewal laws, how government tried to wipe out slums by building new projects intended to get bigger tax yields, but the plan was a complete failure. They just moved the slum and its community from one place to another. Another crucial factor for a slum to unslum is security feeling. If people living there will not be able to walk safely on the streets of their neighborhood and will be scared to get out of their house, the slum will never unslum.
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