There a significant deficit of technical and professional knowhow to get past here.

If you manage yourself, what is your deficit?

They don’t like paying for properly funded reserves.Finally, Chicago has  a $1 BILLION deficit this year.

https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/housing-stat...The Memphis metro area has a deficit of about 29,000 housing units, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

When Trump did it we ended up with the biggest deficit of all time, well before the pandemic. 

After posting a monthly market update for Milwaukee every month for the last 5 years and looking at the data every month and the dynamic that makes prices inch up month after month it is becoming more of a certainty to me than a possibility.Because the reasons don't change: we keep devaluating the paper dollar, we still have a chronic housing shortage and we are not building nearly enough to even keep up, let alone to catch up from the deficit we carry.

It was very effective when I was trying to count calories.

Quote from @V.G Jason: Quote from @Chris Seveney: @V.G JasonI saw today that 30% of jobs now in this country are federal government or government contractorsWe cannot live off trillions of dollar deficits every year - employment is actually negative this year without the government.People lose jobs = cannot pay homes = homes get sold at discount = reset appraisals / lending… You're not wrong, just the sold at discount part I think the floor is going to be higher than people think.

There are consequences for our government decisions and a lot of current policy and national sentiment continues to be inflationary (tighter immigration, high tariffs, wars, nationalism/isolationism, child tax credits, student loan forbearance, high government spending/deficits). 

Insane shelter in place rules have resulted in an $80 billion state budget deficit.