I have seen Urban Renewal and its results, which were/are terrible. Its blight can still be viewed in cities all across America.
Urban renewal is a typical big government answer to what it perceives as a problem. The cure only makes things worse.
These photographs are of Boston's West End .
The building in the lower right in the top picture, under the Lipton's Tea sign, can also be seen in the lower right in the picture below.
Boston should sue as well as all the other cities, larger and smaller, for what big government did to them.