This is quoted in that article. "It’s working, for now, in New York. Detroit had a little less luck with it, because there are not very many 26-year-olds earni

This is quoted in that article. "It’s working, for now, in New York. Detroit had a little less luck with it, because there are not very many 26-year-olds earning $600,000 a year who want to live in Detroit." It's hard to create a welfare system akin to NYC when young professionals do not want to move there.