What city would admit to shrinking?
For those with an interest in cities (especially Rust Belt cities) or planning or advocacy for low-income people or affordable housing I have an article in the summer issue of Shelterforce on the Shrinking Cities "movement":
"No community developer likes to be told that the housing she just built was "not doing anybody a favor." But that's what Jay Williams, the young, incredibly popular mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, said to Governing magazine last fall about much of the low-income tax-credit housing built in his city over the past decade.
Williams is not anti-affordable housing. But Youngstown has lost more than half its population since 1970, dropping to 82,000 from 170,000."