MARRIAGE KEY TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: Most of the time when the public forums have discussion about the growing crisis in affordable housing, the focus tends to be on government measures designed to making it cheaper and faster to build new homes.

But a new analysis by the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center and the Institute for Family Studies makes a strong data-driven case for the idea that reversing America’s declining marriage rate would go a long way to returning home ownership to its central role in the American drea,