So how do you explain it to people? Yeah, I mean, generally in policy we measure affordability by nobody paying more than 30% of their income towards housing costs. We know that There are a lot of people paying 50 and 60% of their income to just housing costs. When we talk about public housing, I think for public housing, we are trying to meet the needs of people at the lowest ends of the income spectrum. (02:50–02:57)
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