They said New York State, not City. Pick a random town w/ 20k-30k people and you'll see rents as low as $1000. Newburgh is a random example I chose. So there's no reason to think their comments requires them to be more or less wealthy, poor or not poor.

Or maybe they've been poor, and now they're not, so they're speaking from prior experience. Or they have friends or family or acquaintances that are poor. It's not like a wealthy person can't have contact with folks less wealthy.

> What's the purpose of an outright ban then? Why not just ban it from rental properties?

Read the newspiece before posting questions that you would have the answer to if you had read the first paragraph.

Average rental prices can be as low as $1,000 for four bedrooms depending on the county. I don't think it takes an income higher than most home owners to afford.