We have all seen the discourse on places like reddit or whatever, where even the positive comments about rough neighborhoods is like “just keep your head up, don’t use headphones, pay attention and you will be fine”
Like how much of this is just white people playing out fantasy scenarios in their cop brains? I feel like most of “bad neighborhood” discourse just comes down to 
Like sure there are places where you are more likely to get your place broken into or whatever and systemic racism tends to result in certain outcomes but I feel like most places like this are in the minority, and in fact this must be the case or gentrification wouldn’t happen 
There was one time where I was walking alone at night in a stereotypically “bad neighborhood”, and was suddenly surrounded and attacked without provocation by a coordinated group of people. I had to revise my “people are inherently tolerant and benevolent” models after that.
That experience shouldn’t necessarily define the neighborhood, nowhere as much as should neoliberal blight as a shaping factor.