1) relax drugs laws and decriminalize drug taking and open drug taking booths in the city. 2) go soft on crime and do nothing to stop shoplifting let alone charge anyone for it. 3) shop lifting gangs spring up and do raids on stores stripping them bare in some cases and getting away with same Scott free. 4) upon seeing this, same spreads throughout the city. 5) slowly shops stop trading and close their doors. 6) the remaining shops cop the full brunt of the shoplifting action, and they close too shortly after. 7) an entire cities central business district shops are closed. The city is heading towards becoming a ghost town shortly after. 8) The vacant shops were mostly at the bottom of office towers and were paying high rents for the 'good location'. 9) the owners of those buildings really needed that rent to be paid as they already had high office vacancies which were still going up due to the ghost town developing. 10) the building owners can't make their own loan repayments any longer so hand the keys to the bank. 11) the property value has diminished greatly in value ( 70-80% now ) and the bank also has to close it doors. 12) the escalation continues across the country.
