Newark NJ has tried this scheme a couple of times over the last decade or so, whereby the city offers vacant property lots for sale in the city for $1. I remember the first time clearly, as people lined up around the block for them (apparently buying into the idea that they had no wealth to pass along because of white people?); many lots were purchased, and a year later the scheme was revisited. Most had been returned to the city, as the buyers realized they had to build on the lot within a few years - and they’d be transformed from rental-assisted gibsmedats to property tax payers.
Recently they tried again, and as I’ve heard nothing, I assume nobody bought any; it is a dead city, only on the map for its airport and train hub (which move people from one place outside Newark to another place outside Newark). The relatively tiny downtown basically shut down during COVID and never really recovered.
It is sad to watch the mayor posture and BS about how Newark could be the next Hoboken; buyers will wait until the cattle cars transport the current residents elsewhere before investing a penny there.
I wasn’t aware of the one dollar lot purchase gambit.
How things work is like 2 + 2 to you and me but a Marxist/Liberal member of the Democrat Party just doesn’t get that “people”, including fellow liberals, will move out of a city when you turn the criminals loose. I shake my head every time I think about Liberals wanting to defund the cops and open the jail doors. Jeez!!!!
I’ve challenged various people many times over the decades to name me one town in the WORLD that was controlled by black people and that was not a shithole or on the way to becoming a shithole. No one has been able to.
Now we have LaTitia James, Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, Alvin Bragg and others trying to destroy our legal system. Hell, maybe they already have.