To answer the question asked in the thread title,
hell, yes!

In fact, Malvina Reynolds's lyrics are so perfectly descriptive that, back in 1968, when driving up the California coast from near LA and approaching Daly City, I looked up at the hills and spontaneously exclaimed -- without knowing of Reynolds's inspiration for the song --
"Omigod! There are the little boxes made of ticky-tacky!"
There the were, in little rows like train cars, all looking the same except for there being a few different pastels (pink, blue, green, yellow).

I later learned that those rows of boxy pastel houses in that Daly City development were, indeed, the ones referred to in the song.

And, especially at the time, the rest of the lyrics were pretty much spot-on too.

Genie