December 2016 LSAT Section 4 Question 8

Politician: Some cities have reversed the decay of aging urban areas by providing tax incentives and zoning variances...

PicolinaBallerina on August 1, 2023

Please Explain Further

Can someone please help break down answer A and why it is correct a little more? I'm particularly confused as to the intention part of it - my reading of that first sentence was that it actually did help with decay in other cities, not just that is was a thought with good intent.

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Emil-Kunkin on August 7, 2023

I agree that it is a good intent, and that there was a good result, but the author clearly thinks that the bad outweighs the good. The author tells us that the program is not commendable since gentrification hurts the low income, long term residents. The program was intended to help them, but it actually hurt them. A is correct because it shows that good intent is a not enough to make a program commendable, which is needed to show that this program whose intent was good but who's result was net negative was not commendable.