There's also the point, if you're of a Great Reset bent, that this move gets property out of private hands. Can't have the proles getting ideas - like property ownership - above their station, now, can we?

And New York descends ever further into shitholery, if it wasn't already there to begin with.

I don't think they'll notice any difference, the place already looks like Cuba, and I don't mean the touristy parts that locals are banned from entering unless they're the help.