New views are needed, not only about the impacts of the affordable housing crisis, but also about its causes. It’s not just capitalism run amok, because that doesn’t happen without government involvement. We’ll talk with longtime affordable housing advocate Gene Slater, founder and chair at CSG Advisors. '”Also on the show: Media continue to toss off the term “inflation” as the reason for higher prices, as if in hope that folks will stop their brains right there and blame an abstract entity. Transcript: “‘Mega-Retailers Are Using Inflation as a Cover to Raise Prices and Turn Record Profits'”Combined corporate and government choices—and how they affect the rest of us, this week on CounterSpin.