The failure to ensure that basic needs like housing are available at prices that are affordable to average people is a clear and unforgivable failure by policy makers.
> We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed.
That's always true at any given moment in time. 100 years ago, someone was living in the most technologically advanced civilization but they still had to budget. We're not in star trek the next generation yet.
And given that this is a democracy, yes, we are entitled to have a government that operates for our benefit. That is not too much to ask.