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They key is they did it nationwide. If one area in the US tries to do this, other areas will ship them their homeless.
If you recover 4/5 from them, then your economy is going to boom
It has to function long enough and well enough for that recovery, and the sheer malice of conservatives in this country suggests that the city would be swiftly overrun with confused bussed-in folk on the taxpayer dime while GOP governors crow about how they've defeated the Woke Menace(tm) yet again
This a huge thing to overcome. Our structure is made for these sorts of decisions and assistance to be locally organized, funded and regulated. Changing that to a federal level is an undertaking and a half. Even if it was to pass. Which it wouldn't because of all of the above.