Do Neighborhoods Matter?

I completely understand why this question would be raised in society, however after x amount of years have passed I believe that it's safe to say that neighborhoods do matter. When you're not seeing any type of progress from a group of people who live in a low income neighborhood in comparison to a groups of people who live in middle income or high income neighborhood, they do matter. I know that many of you have probably heard the quote "You're a product of your environment." A person's neighborhood is their environment. If they're living in low income housing, it's probably likely that they're surrounded by other low income institutions (ex. schools, restaurants, etc.) When I say "low income institutions", I mean that these places they're surrounded by are lacking something that higher income places have; they're unkept, unclean and just not really nice looking places. I'm not saying that a person's neighborhood is the absolute, number 1 reason why a person is the way they are, however it is a contributing factor to poverty. After really thinking about this question it really doesn't surprise me that for over a quarter of a century, there is still no answer. What do I personally think should be done about poverty? I think that people should stop looking at poverty as whole and take it piece by piece-little by little. We need to start trying to fix the contributing factors, like neighborhoods and their surrounding environments to alleviate the depression that they're surrounded by.