i can't believe that. it fails the conspiracy secrecy test - there would have had to have been a bunch of people involved and eventually there would have been a scandal.
my bet is that we have mild winters in California that are much less Darwinian.
"New York has found a novel, if expensive, way of dealing with its overcrowded shelters – buying one-way tickets for homeless families to leave the city."
From that article: “Families can qualify for the tickets if they have a relative in another part of the world, including the US, who says they are willing to house them.”
NYC also gets its share of people from outside the NYC region who actually fall for the myth of NYC as ultra-socialist nirvana.
my bet is that we have mild winters in California that are much less Darwinian.