Perhaps I'm overly cynical but this feels like a pretense from people who dislike the poor and masking it as helping. There is sadly ample precedent of this sor

Perhaps I'm overly cynical but this feels like a pretense from people who dislike the poor and masking it as helping. There is sadly ample precedent of this sort of thing. The end goal seems to be "not my problem" and forcing them out / preventing them from taking root - perhaps motivated by property value concerns as much as prejudice. But it isn't acceptable to state such motives so openly, so they instead mask it with very strange kinds of 'concern' or 'helping' that just happen to pursue their goals. "It is for the sake of being humane that we want a minimum sizes of housing high." There is the pattern of being willing to hoist restrictions and spend money on enforcement of the lower incomes but not being willing to add more to anything that would actually help them or reduce restrictions - and then rationalizing why that would be a good thing.