11. The restaurant, he said, also gave 200 people jobs and brought life to a blighted area . 12. And so he has gone back, now 33 and married, to the blighted areas of Philadelphia. 13. In addition, Cleaver fought to use public money to improve blighted areas that house mostly minorities. 14. Large tracts of blighted areas were cleaned up. 15. We picked that area north of the West End because it was the last blighted area , 16. They could scrape together enough money to buy stores in blighted areas , places ignored by other merchants. 17. This eventually resulted in numerous blighted areas . 18. Mondawmin still has many blighted areas . 19. The " clearance, replanning, development or redevelopment of blighted areas " is made a public and state duty. 20. The public-private approach promotes economic rebirth in blighted areas and can bring new opportunity to residents there, said Heard.