Gaagh, ya gots me. It's a lie, a joke, a myth.
After all, if big cities out gave rental vouchers like any those seemingly but not really po' states that reside betwixt the tumbleweeds, THEN we can say they're the economic engines we claim made them into cities in the first place. Just look at small town America - they have shrinking towns, dying towns, ghost towns - can big cities make the same claim? I think not!
And even better, should they hit harder times like they did in the Great Recession, their local goverments will supply them with a nice juicy one way ticket ticket to .... DISNEYLAND! Literally.
At one point Mayor Bloomberg decided to start sending them back - 40,000 and counting - that had shown up in NYC at the time.
Even more Confedies were sent to warmer SoCal because cousin Jeb freezing to death is less likely on the beach at Santa Monica.
But that ain't the only thing that showed up. See, there's this little thing called "gentrification" in which richer non-darkie folks from elsewhere come for high tech .com jobs and gleefully pay ever escalating rents so they can brag how they live in what were once the decrepit lanes of Venice Beach and the once burning South Bronx.
Meanwhile, those of lesser means who kept the faith and stayed since the bad ol' days in the 1970s get to lose their apartments as a consequence. Those are the poor folk you make jest of, being a fine Jayzuz worshipper n all that you m,ost surely iz.
Sheesh, the trust fund Yuppie Hipster crowd are even pushing them out of Hunts Point. THE Hunts Point! HUNTS FRIGGIN POINT! Formally the most renowned disgusting heap of a dump to have ever existed on the planet.
HUNTS POINT!
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