Help for Your Desperately Ailing Community...does it exist?

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Face it, there are places, both urban and rural, in the US no one would touch with a ten foot pole, with property values close to zero, and residents lost in hopelessness, perpetually stuck, feeling they can never escape. When private investors hear of such places they laugh, turn their noses toward the sky, shaking their heads, muttering, not in my lifetime!
Never fear, Promise Zones are here! if your community can obtain a Promise Zone designation, it can obtain federal grants for investment and improving overall quality of life.

Help for your bleak town or city!

It's easy to be a fan of "urban renewal" but who is it for?

Usually it's for well-off people to move into after displacing the poor people who had been living there.

It doesn't have to be just for urban areas. It can be for forgotten places like Appalachia, for instance, where coal mining used to support the population but no longer does. Such places put all their eggs in one basket long ago, thinking it would be a one trick pony forever and ever, nothing but coal mining indefinitely, so private investors shy away leaving them without any options because they never diversified and might have shunned putting money into schools & education thinking coal mining earns a good wage and doesn't require college. Plenty of forgotten places exist in the American backwoods and Promise Zones could revitalize them.

There is no hope for Adelanto. The government (state, county?) use it to dump all the criminals, they would never allow it to flourish like it once had.