The willingness of millennials to move to urban areas will be the salvation of cities as long as the cities recognize what they have to do to keep them for more than a few years. To avoid future millennial flight ("City population shrinks slightly in new estimates," March 26), cities will need to have clean convenient public transit and reliable infrastructure.
They will also need to improve the safety and quality of education in public schools. They will need to get control of the illegal drug trade and its resulting crime. And, as odd as it sounds, cities like Baltimore in particular, will need to make it easy for residents to get permits to convert two or three row homes into a house that is large enough for a modern family.
Miss out on any one of these and the millennials, like the two generations before them, will run for the suburbs when the first child is ready for kindergarten.
Anita Heygster, Pasadena