The Alfred E. Smith Houses, a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. | Getty Images

In the wake of the president?s disparaging remarks, Curbed examines the administration?s urban policies Amid the many responses and reactions to President Trump?s tweets over the weekend disparaging Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings, a consistent topic touched upon by both supporters and detractors of the president was the need for urban policy at all levels of government, both in Baltimore and cities nationwide. Can decades of leadership decisions by local politicians harm a city" What?s the responsibility and reach of the federal government when it comes to the state of underinvested neighborhoods in urban areas of the United States" What has Trump done for U.S. cities lately" No one politician, especially a president in office for less than three years, can lay claim to all the credit or blame for the current state of a large American city. Decades of urban renewal, discriminatory housing policies, and economic change have created today?s state of inequality, where some cities thrive, others struggle, and many neighborhoods are challenged by disinvestment, blight, and a lack of social mobility.
But the president and his administration have put forth a platform that proposes significant changes for urban America. Curbed has compiled the numerous policy pronouncement...