Is it possible that Mrs Thatcher was half right about housing? Whether she was or not, the current price of homes condemns both partners in many couples to 25 years of indentured servitude, cut off from their families, working at jobs they despise. The time has come to build new homes and then give them away:
http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2011/11/21/why-we-need-to-build-homes-again-and-give-them-away