You think NYC is bad NOW?
NYC from what I have been told is a strange town, few live there year round except the street people and a good many live in the tunnels under the transit lines. Just because the street people end up living this way does not mean these people are with out skills, interesting life style. The electricians that find them selves down there rewire so the people have lights, TV Cabal microwave. Plumbers redirect the sewage away from the portable water, carpenters build shanties for them selves and others,
Up top live the some timers who feel wealthy, the people who can afford to rent [ for now] the cost to park their car, and the $,6.000,00 a month rent on 1600 foot square foot apartment
with no doorman. Cheaper to live in a opulent hotel, not so much space but more free dome to move about as the economy goes it twisted ways.
NYC is a city that few LIVE in, all come from the outside.