"Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky"

Damn right it's an inappropriate comparison. One made by that crass and stupid song! Which is why I said what I said.

Sure, the song's a product of its time. But funnily enough, there were people around then, the same age as the person that wrote that song, who were a lot more sociopolitically astute who would never have dreamed of saying anything that crappy.

You're talking about the song as if it is simply complaining about cheap housing unnecessary despoiling a countryside. But that's not even the half of it.