I don't understand why this is "progressive," in the way that term is usually used. I have been reading various different conservatives arguing for supply-side changes in these different industries my entire adult life. Sometimes, a thing is just a thing that people can agree on independent of world view. For example, the author could have instead written "People who care about affordable housing must continue to unite against excessive zoning and NIMBYism."
The author's audience is progressives. If these sorts of solutions become palatable on the left they'll likely find enough support on the right to get done. Branding these as progressive policies likely helps lower progressive reticence to enacting supply-side policies.
It's not purely cynical, of course -- TFA demonstrated that these efforts help people in lower-income groups more (by some measures) than they help people in upper-income groups.
I don't understand why this is "progressive," in the way that term is usually used. I have been reading various different conservatives arguing for supply-side changes in these different industries my entire adult life. Sometimes, a thing is just a thing that people can agree on independent of world view. For example, the author could have instead written "People who care about affordable housing must continue to unite against excessive zoning and NIMBYism."