Being poor is just a lack of liquidity. Minimum income is opening the bank bailout philosophy from just corporate persons, to all persons. But human people act differently than corporate people, so maybe it will work in this scope.

Edit: If you disagree, could you please say why? I can be dense and clueless, but it's hard to improve if I'm ignorant.

It has nothing to do with the technology sector directly; It's just about money and the pendulum swinging back towards urban living being considered desirable. A booming sector of the economy combined with a relatively affluent portion of the population wanting to move into geographically constrained areas that have been neglected in terms of development for the past few decades.