The state’s (generally whiter, wealthier) residents use these tools to prevent new construction that might house (generally more diverse, poorer) newcomers."

Most of the points made in this article such as the white rich NIMBYs (aka mostly white rich liberals) and the California housing crisis are the truth.

"The basic problem remains: It is difficult to build housing in California, thanks in part to a thicket of local parking regulations, building requirements, zoning restrictions, and bureaucratic choke points. The state’s (generally whiter, wealthier) residents use these tools to prevent new construction that might house (generally more diverse, poorer) newcomers."

And then there are organizations supposedly for low income and affordable housing that oppose solutions. They do because they would be out of jobs.

"What remains to be seen is how the state’s powerful low-income and social-justice community will come down on it."

"Right now, the people living in those units are often unrelated adults. I talked to one person in San Francisco who is paying $1,900 for a room in an 8-person house. That’s dystopia.

I lived for six years in the Mission, in a three-bedroom apartment, occupied by three unrelated adults who didn’t even really like each other all that much [laughter]. I would’ve preferred to have my own one-bedroom or studio in San Francisco, I just couldn’t afford it. Part of the reason you have all these non-families living in family-sized units is that there aren’t the other smaller units for them to move into. [SB 827] would free up existing family-sized units for actual families."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/sb827-california-housing-crisis

Other links:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/housing-survey/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/12/homes-for-human-beings-millennial-driven-anti-nimby-movement-is-winning-with-a-simple-message/amp/