If you are serious about the problems that result from NIMBY anti-growth sentiments, I strongly recommend that you join one of the following groups working to influence their city councils to build more housing. Just liking them on FB goes a long way to giving them more influence and credibility with their city councils and when you reshare their blogs or FB posts, if they gain just one more person willing to come to city hall with them, it's a terrific win. People ARE trying to do something about this problem, including many from the tech sector.

Take the feelings you have from this article and channel into a concrete good that you can do right now, today, for minimal effort and zero cost. The sad truth is that the people whose voices get heard at city council today are generally those people wealthy enough in both dollars and time to spend hours every week at city hall. They're mostly retired homeowners sitting on multimillion dollar properties. Renters, poor people, and homeless people receive almost no representation because they don't have the luxury of coming to city hall meetings- they're busy figuring out where they're going to spend the night and how they're going to feed their kids this week. These groups are doing just that on their behalf, so please support them.

If you're in Palo Alto, check out www.paloaltoforward.com (also www.facebook.com/paloaltoforward

If you're in Mountain View, check out http://balancedmv.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/mvhousingdiversity

If you're in SF, https://www.facebook.com/BARentersFed and www.sfbarf.org

Menlo Park: https://www.facebook.com/MenloParkNoOnM