We're In An Affordability Crisis

Which is more dramatic, the loud cry about the "housing affordability crisis" in the news, or the silence of any real progress, consistently, for the last 20 years? The "crisis" is documented regularly, but what is the root cause? Of course, without knowing the cause you cannot solve the problem.  It is clear that the real estate news and our governmental leaders want to divert us from the real problem, and the "housing affordability crisis" is merely a head fake.