> You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California support a market-based solution like permitting more for-profit development. If that ever happens, it will be despite these workers' objections.

That's like, literally, the entire platform of the YIMBY movement. These groups are by and large left-leaning, and activist groups. They generally support more market rate or affordable (or both!) housing. Basically any development.