Since then, and for the first time in 25 years, real income per capita has grown consistently faster than real output per capita. From 2002 to 2005, the average annual growth of real income per capita was 3.6 per cent, compared with growth in real output per capita of 1.7 per cent.
4  Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies (2008), "America's Rental Housing: The Key to a Balanced National Policy".