New Survey: Improving Housing Affordability – But Still a Way to Go

[opebo]

The article fails the mention the other aspect of this 'affordability' equation - incomes.  This is the problem.  Back in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, incomes for the majority of people were radically higher than at present.  Get everyone back on $35/hour union jobs and we won't have to have quite the deflation this author is so pleased about.

[opebo]

No, fellows, if wages were required to be at a useful level, 'lettuce' would be picked by a machine. 

It is only governmentally imposed remedies for capitalist subjugation (conversly put, reductions in governmentally-imposed privilege) which motivate technical innovation and productivity increases.