Cheap Rent Property Management Company's storefront is located near the entrance to Interstate 90 in Cleveland, a highway that stretches directly from downtown to the suburbs.
In the planning of some of America's early major cities, there would generally be two or three highways passing through the city center. The purpose of this was to facilitate commuting, as, after all, it is a country on wheels, with cars as the most mainstream mode of transportation and almost every household owning one, sometimes even more than one.
But as the scale of the cities expanded, highways had become a burden. They took up a significant amount of land and also caused disturbances to residents to a certain extent.
Even now, Cleveland shows signs of urban decay precisely because highways have led the middle class to the suburbs.
There are too many African Americans in the city center, and the middle class would rather drive a bit longer every day than live next to black people.
