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The phrase "an inner city problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to issues or challenges that are specifically associated with urban areas, particularly those that are densely populated and often economically disadvantaged.
Example: "The rise in crime rates has been identified as an inner city problem that requires immediate attention from local authorities."
Alternatives: "an urban issue" or "a city-related challenge".
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We used to think of a heroin as an inner city problem, but it's now a problem we're seeing across the nation among all populations and all ages".
This is no longer "just an inner city problem" that primarily rich white people and politicians in the suburbs can ignore.
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It's not just an inner-city problem either.
"This is not just a suburban problem or an inner-city problem or a problem of a certain demographic," she said.
Historically, the AIDS battle has been thought of as an inner-city problem in America's largest metro areas, like New York and Los Angeles, the researchers said.
These projects may involve green management, inner city problem solutions, job training for unemployed people, community development, etc.
Tory members of parliament denounced as "Marxist" and "far left" a 1985 report he sponsored on inner city problems that led to the creation of the Church Urban Fund, a charity devoted to employment and social projects in some of the country's most deprived areas, which he accused the Thatcher government of neglecting.
So did 1955's "Blackboard Jungle," Richard Brooks' acclaimed drama exploring problems at an inner city New York high school.
Illegitimacy is generally regarded as a black inner-city problem by middle-class whites, a comforting illusion.
The findings redraw the perceived map of acute financial stress, finding it is not an exclusively northern or inner-city problem.
The US may be the country that gave the world hyper-sprawl, 10-lane freeways and the inner-city problem, but it's now vigorously addressing these with programmes emphasising compact, walkable cities, served by rail-based transit, with traditional town centres.
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