The housing advocacy I've seen suffers from a motte and bailey dynamic: a certain kind of activist seems to really want to abolish prices and markets as tools for dealing with scarcity while insisting that they're merely trying to enact common sense tenant protections or maintain people's right to housing or something. The NIMBY opposition to new housing makes sense in this context: it shouldn't be developers (i.e., the market) that decides when to expand the housing inventory, but instead some committee.

I just wish these people be up front about their opposition to prices so we could have a clear discussion of who decides who gets to live where.