Particularly in the United States, but in increasing manner in other countries too, whenever there's a city that's being run by modern far-leftist activists (ie. the city government is dominated by or even exclusively far-leftist), the quality of life of the city tends to go down the toilet:
Streets become dirtier and dirtier, and more and more full of trash and human waste which takes longer and longer to clean up (this eventually and inevitably ending up in a situation where it's just never cleaned by the city at all). Homeless people and drug addicts start taking over and invading park after park, alley after alley, street after street, eventually even major streets. Homeless tent encampments become a common sight. And, of course, all these areas that have been taken over by drug addicts and homeless people become more and more dangerous to traverse, as crime soars. The police will effectively stop enforcing the law.
The city government, of course, always uses all the excuses in the book to try to explain why they aren't doing anything about it (particularly when the problem becomes so widespread and so visible that they cannot hide and deny it anymore). Limited resources, limited budget, not enough personnel, not enough money, not enough time, there are more important things to do. It's always the same: The situation might be a big unfortunate, but there's nothing that can be done about it.
However, suppose that a big international event is organized in that city. An event that will see tens of thousands of visitors from all across the world, and will be televised to tends or hundreds of millions of viewers across the planet.
And what do you know, within a week the city will miraculously be pristine clean. All the garbage gone, all the human waste gone, all the homeless people, drug addicts and tent encampments gone. Public parks and streets that were literal garbage dumps will suddenly be pristine clean. Streets will be immaculate and safe, and everything will look like a clean, peaceful, low-crime modern city.
This has happened many times, not just in the United States but many other countries as well.
It just goes to show that cleaning up the city is a matter of willpower and motivation, not a question of budgets and resources.
(Of course, unfortunately for the inhabitants of the city, the situation will return to "normal" after the event has ended, and streets and public parks will relatively quickly fill up with garbage and drug addicts once more. The pristine clean state never lasts, once the motivation is gone.)
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