Is The Philadelphia Blight Plan Dead?

"Mayor Street's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative is a lot like former President Clinton?s health care plan of 1993. A major policy initiative on a top-priority problem is announced as the signature reform of a new administration. The initiative is over-engineered by a bunch of brainy but naive eggheads who quickly alienate almost everyone involved. A laughable mix of arrogance and bumbling eventually brings the original good idea to a halt, in a legislative stalemate that has no end in sight."