I could just as easily say the poorest run city policies:
Housing - don't want gentrification and are rent-controlled anyway
Thefts - don't care about rich store owners or home owners and don't want to be hassled by the police
Schools - if they can't do advanced math then get rid of it so that no one is ahead of them
Tech - they don't work in tech and don't want to compete against rich techies for housing
I think the truth is that it's run by the entrenched, which is a mix of the rich and poor: people who already own property (because their families have been here a long time or because they're rich) and people who have rent-controlled apartments