I figured this comment carried enough satire to not need explanation. He was using an offensive tone to carry over the implicated apathy that city planning has on the impoverished.
I think based on the rest of the context that was kind of the point - to drive home the "screw these people" attitude that policies like this would spring from.
sigh I am surprised how much I misread that comment. I think I just saw 'the poors' and I didn't properly read the rest of the comment at first glance.