Our first serious mention of VP management was in this update https://steemit.com/services/@steembasicincome/outgoing-votes-report-17-february-2019 and we have been tracking our progress regularly in our updates since then.
While low VP decreases the total amount that we can deliver on a per post basis, it does not decrease the total amount of value that we are able to deliver. We will explore this further in our next 'Into the Heart of Sustainability' post.
The only members that are impacted by our low VP are the few accounts that have high pending balances and should be getting larger upvotes on each post than the $2.34 maximum upvote that we are currently able to deliver.
FYI:
We increased our SP by more than 5k yesterday and have been completing similar levels of power ups and lease requests every day for a while.