Under Labour they were meant to replace "failing" schools, predominantly in poor areas, and indeed the one key success of the programme has been to make schools that often serve rundown communities attractive to middle-class parents.
Plans for super-casinos offering 1,250 unlimited-jackpot slot machines were scaled down and eventually scrapped in 2008 in the face of opposition from gambling addition charities and others who claimed it was an inappropriate way to regenerate rundown communities.
So at the moment we have a central library that is looking increasingly decayed because no money is being spent maintaining it, and some very rundown community libraries".
The migrants, who have insisted on remaining together, are being dropped off at a rundown community sports center where officials set up a makeshift shelter last week.
John (Austin Nichols), who is not really from Cincinnati, at least not the one on this planet, wanders into a rundown surfing community in Imperial Beach, south of downtown San Diego, and into the lives of the Yosts, three generations of surfers who are a sun-bleached dynasty with a Kennedyesque curse.
Shortly before dusk, on the road to Apiaí, we come across a group of teenagers kicking a ball through thick mud amid a small community of rundown wooden shacks.
The prime minister said the battle including addressing racism and antisemitism as well as what he described as unacceptable inequality, a reference to parts of the rundown banlieues with high migrant communities, high poverty rates and rampant unemployment that are seen as breeding grounds for religious extremism.
It is true that he was concerned at the isolation of some disabled people living in the community, following the rundown of the long-stay hospitals, but it was under his chairmanship that Mencap laid plans for Golden Lane Housing, which today provides homes for more than 1,700 people with support needs.
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Back then she thought she was about to appear in a Channel 4 documentary about community spirit in her rundown neighbourhood.
Her group, part of the church of Saint Sabina, is trying to halt the tide of murder that is ravaging what is left of the community of Englewood, a rundown district of Chicago.
