Infrastructure
Infrastructure is not the problem with America's cities. If you try to build something nice in America nowadays, the new inhabitants of the inner cities will steal, vandalize, or destroy it. 100 years ago, when a different type of inhabitant lived in the cities in America, people had respect for property. In Malasia and Singapore, the penalty for graffiti is caning (20 whips to the rearend with a piece of cane).Today in America's cities, you see graffiti at best, and copper, brass, and stainless torn off at worst so it can be sold to scrapyards and shipped to China.
If you want to change the infrastructure, you must change the culture first. Go to any large American city (not center city where the money is) and take a walk in the ghetto. If you come back alive you will realize what the real problem is with the formerly great American cities. They have been in decline since the end of WW2.
Biden is an idiot if he does not realize this.