Get women out of the workforce. By 2030, it is estimated that 45% of adult women will be single. Many of these women are living on their own not with their parents. Women can live in their own because they are working and earning an income. This leads to an increase in the demand for housing by 22.5%. If women couldn't earn an income and were forced to stay with their parents until they married a man, the demand would come down immensely for housing and the prices would plummet. Part of why we have a housing crisis today but didn't in the past is this very issue. Everyone cites the 1950s where people could afford a house on one income and it's because the demand for housing was significantly less. How many single women owned houses or rented in the 1950s? Exactly.