It's not liberals only who feel this way, however liberal states have many more tools that allow NIMBYs to stall and prevent housing from being built.

This has been a recent topic in liberal circles largely due to a book called Abundance, written by Ezra Klein who is as liberal as they come. He examined policies in red states and blue states and essentially found that red states had much less restrictions on building housing and that availability of housing is the number one factor in housing/rent prices. Basically, well-intentioned liberal policies like environmental laws and zoning restrictions have been weaponized by the NIMBYs to stall or in many cases completely prevent housing from being built. Sure, deep red voters can be NIMBYs too, but in those states there's fuck all they can really do about it and the buildings do get built.

States that have been consistently controlled and governed by liberals, like California and New York, are places where it's extremely difficult for a developer to build new housing, while states like Florida and Texas largely don't have those restrictions, even in big cities.

Then you look ta the New York mayoral race and it's a great example of a city where liberal governance for the past 20 years has literally created a housing crisis, which now the liberal candidate proposes to solve with rent control, a proven terrible solution that has been tried many times and doesn't work. The city needs to relax the regulations on new construction and stop allowing NIMBYs to rule the day, but instead it looks like people who don't understand the basics of supply and demand will try to control the market by fiat.