Wanted: 1,000’s and 1,000’s and 1,000’s of urban-minded, home-renovating, mortgage-paying artists

The Wall Street Journal covers the luring of artists and the “creative class” to blighted areas of cities such as Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis. Predictably, the story contains the requisite New York City transfer couple and the “wow, you can buy a home for $1” meme. City officials are now embracing these efforts, but …