Interesting idea. I would quibble a bit with some of the stuff around zoning. There are tons of left-wing places like San Francisco that have an enormous amount of zoning and regulation around building homes - including areas where it's not legal to build anything other than single family units.
One of the things I've found a bit refreshing about the YIMBY movement is that it is not really on one side of our political "trenches" - things like abortion or guns where the lines are drawn and you can mostly predict how someone votes by their party affiliation. Means there is a bit of room for some alliances - and also that people of your same party won't necessarily "have your back".
I think that it's important to both separate out the left/right axis from the vetocracy axis. But also to realize that even if one professes leftism on the National scale when it may not affect one's significant privileges, that at the local level that "leftism" may dissipate when it results in very real dissipation of one's significant privileges that happen only locally.
Right. Even most American leftists are much less leftist regarding the broader "world system" into which America fits -- compare self-professed "progressivism" to something like Maoism-Third Worldism.
One of the things I've found a bit refreshing about the YIMBY movement is that it is not really on one side of our political "trenches" - things like abortion or guns where the lines are drawn and you can mostly predict how someone votes by their party affiliation. Means there is a bit of room for some alliances - and also that people of your same party won't necessarily "have your back".