This is overly dismissive of the concerns of poor and working class renters. A big problem in this debate is that privileged, largely white people who want more

This is overly dismissive of the concerns of poor and working class renters. A big problem in this debate is that privileged, largely white people who want more affordable market rate housing claim to be speaking on behalf of poorer people and claim that the same set of policies and approaches will work for everyone. They dismiss them as “misled” instead of listening carefully to their expressed needs for much more subsidized housing construction and controls on gentrification of their communities. Those are things that local governments can affect, so generally disempowering them is a concern to these communities.