I live in the rapidly depopulating ghost town that is Upstate NY. Foreclosures for back taxes have hit close to home, and small businesses are dropping like flies. Only new housing going up is low income, and most of the few new full-time private sector jobs are the result of taxpayer-funded bribes.
NJ is similar, though we are building worker hives (apartment units for childless drones) - which all require a set-aside of x number of units for low-income housing. They are trying to spread the gibsmedats around outside of the bankrupt cities, to attach them to a taxpaying host. Since Americans won’t breed, it seemed a good fit (Americans slaving away in sh!tty jobs paying for schools filled with the children of non-working parents) - but now the Americans are fleeing in droves. Years ago Americans waited until retirement to flee the NYC metro area; now they leave when they are finished with their education because there is no opportunity here anymore - unless you want to work solely to support those who won’t.