I doubt it's their "good intentions". It's their way of maintaining their wealth and "we know better" plutarchy.
They import poverty, and expect the hoi polloi to pay for it, so they can feel good, while impoverishing most others, not to mention making life miserable for those that have to put up with the increasing number of bottom feeders and "artistic types" that do not subscribe to "middle class values".
The elites play up the good intentions while planning gulags.