What I always find extremely amusing is that the same far-left nuts who try to halt every building project for the sake of "the environment" also complain that the lack of "affordable housing" hurts the poor that they care so much about. Instead of admitting that there is a problem, they blame some big business conspiracy and try to mandate construction of affordable homes. The simple principle of supply and demand is out of their intellectual grasp. I know, I'm related to leftist nuts.
OTOH, I sold my house in California not so long ago. I'm not complaining. :)
affordable housing does not require a condo developers free-for-all. affordable housing involves rental reform, community activism, and other political actions that do not impede the work of environmentalists.