If people's rent went to producing more housing and paying for the labor and materials of that housing, and we simultaneously invested in the trades to make sure there was consistent and good pay and that there was enough labor, there would be more than enough money.

If we try to take money from income taxes, it won't work.

We need to stop transferring wealth to unproductive rentiers (landlords), and instead transfer it to labor which will produce what we need.

The reason this doesn't happen is that the rentiers control the zoning boards.