<i>the lack of affordable homes is lowering the country’s annual economic output</i><p>The market can't build below market rate housing and economic policy for thirty years has been to remove below market rate housing through HOPE VI.<p>Hope VI is trickle down economics. Give wealth to wealth and hope wealth will act in an economically irrational way.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI</a>