There was a city agency that did this in Columbus Ohio. SMART Columbus.

They used tax money to subsidize ebikes for low income folks.

Turns up low income people don’t need an expensive bike that they have nowhere to store securely and they can’t use to transport their families.

Those that got them, turned around and sold them as quickly as possible.

This was a very DUMB way for the city to take a lot of taxpayer money, hand it to a brain-dead organization, pay the employees to organize everything, waste a lot of time to give low-income folks less money than if they would have just handed it out.

SMART Columbus: turning a lot of money, into a little money.