Cleveland wants more Democrats, gibmedats, and EBT voters to help their 25% income tax increase approved. East Cleveland needs a teet and it looks like Cleveland needs more dependents so as to better drain the few productive people it has left.
Cleveland has been losing population—it had over 900,000 people in 1950 and has under 400,000 now. This will put it over 400,000 at least momentarily, and the residents of East Cleveland will now live in a city with a Major League Baseball team (which most of them may not care about) as well as an NBA team.