What Are We Supposed to Do with Our Real Estate

The town is Campbell, and it is located in Ohio but the Pennsylvania line is just up the street from me. We have in Campbell a population of 8,000, I am estimating, and most of us have been in this town for more than forty years, not counting how many years our parents and their parents and their parents parents were here.
The town of Campbell has much to be proud of for in the past five years, we have seen a new high school, a new middle school added to our new city hall and our new library.
One would think that with all these new additions, most of which were put in by federal grants, would have attracted upscale mobile buyers of our real estate. That, I am afraid, is not the case.
The City of Campbell is divided by neighborhoods designated by the streets in the neighborhood. For example an elegant neighborhood with single family homes ranging in price from 120,000 dollars to 250,000 dollars comprises a neighborhood that borders on the city's park.
The neighborhood around the new high school includes a secret subdivision that includes new single family homes ranging from 150,000 to 200,000, but the subdivision is surrounded by an older neighborhood with single family homes from 50,000 to 75,000. Included in this neighborhood are some streets with some vacant houses and some homes that look as if the rats had moved in as permanent residents.
There are streets in Campbell whose houses are shockingly project looking, garbage on the once fashionable porches, sidewalks with cements blocks jutting up to snag any body that dares to walk instead of to ride. Those streets are less than two minute walks from immaculate green lawns and sprawling brick ranches.
The juxtaposition of absolute squalor and obvious middle class is almost ridiculous.

An example of property values would be my next door neighbor's house. My neighbor and his wife were taken and put into a retirement home in Florida, again, I am assuming as they didn't tell me. Their house is a two story Tudor, redundant, with full basement and attic. The house sold for 65, 000 dollars. The investor remodelled the kitchen and had the entire house painted and cleared out, including the basement. He is now renting the house for 650 dollars a month. He will have to rent the house for, at least, ten years just to make the money that he spent on buying it and remodelling it. Perhaps, he needs the tax write off. Across the street from me a couple moved into their aunt's house after she passed away. They totally remodelled the house and are living in there obviously happy. There situation is actually the situation of most homes in Campbell. But, the children who are inheriting their relatives houses, anymore, are more affluent and do not want to stay in town.
They are selling their homes to anybody who has a loan and the situation is not looking good.