They wanna bring back company towns, and eventually chattel slavery, so bad.

In Samuel Delany's book—Triton— his cities have "unlicenced sectors" where there is no law. After the initial bloodbath, they settled down to be the preferred places for artists and other creatives to live. In the Canadian cities I've lived, it was close to the experience of the east sides of them—first built, fallen into low income and populated by artists who couldn't afford the west, newer, sides.