Her blood pressure, she says, is down 30 points. After three months in town, it has stayed there. Hadley wants to import that positive thinking here. That's more controversial than it sounds. Armed with the lists of problems, they gather money to treat those problems, which never disappear.
Agencies survive by gathering evidence that big problems still ail the community.
They learn how to view a community through negative lenses. The people who live in the neighborhoods are not being helped. They're being disenfranchised. I must have put out a billion dollars of grants. Yet communities didn't grow stronger.