It’s a tale worthy of a Disney classic: wicked plotters, oppressed workers, an uphill battle that leads, one hopes, to a happy ending. But this time the bad guy is in the mouse suit. At least that’s how affordable-housing advocates in Disneyland’s home town of Anaheim tell the story, the Washington Post reports.

This sunny city 25 miles south of Los Angeles is divided over a housing developer’s plan to build 1,500 apartments and condos, 225 of them for low-income families, a few blocks from Disneyland. Disney doesn’t want the project, arguing that the land is zoned for tourism.

But Disney’s resistance to housing — affordable housing, especially — is fueling frustration in Anaheim. Here, as in much of Southern California, home prices are beyond the grasp of service workers such as one might find, for instance, operating a ride at Disneyland. A coalition of service workers unions, churches and nonprofits has turned Disney’s resistance into a rallying cry.

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