The article is basically on point. Individual choices about consumption have no influence on socio-political trends; that requires collective action. As the article concludes,
The exact solutions can be debated, but I would start by lobbying your local government for housing subsidies for the low-income, protections against eviction due to rising rents, and an end to exclusionary caps on housing construction that keep prices artificially high.
One of the things crippling political resistance in the US is the widespread memory lapse about the possibility of collective action; most social problems are framed in terms of decisions about consumption by the middle class (and people who aren’t middle class are trained to think of themselves as middle class).
