Free housing for everyone!

So I'm reading The Working Poor, and all the while I can't help but think that I'm the wrong guy to be reading books like this. For the most part, I already get the idea that the mor you have to struggle to earn money, the harder life will be and the harder life will be for your kids as well.

But while I was reading the chapter featuring Ann, didn't work in order to give her kids a better future (intriguing, no? get the book), I thought, 'Why not just give everyone a home.' That, clearly, was Ann's biggest struggle. And as a soon-to-be homeowner, I can tell the payments will take up at least half, if not more of our monthly income. But if we had a house, we could use that excess money to help any future kids that we had. Not only could we afford more for them, but we also wouldn't have to work as hard which would give us more free time to spend with them, also important to child development. And money for health care, for doctors- you could hire young tutors and nutrionists, if you wanted. It would seemingly make the country a whole lot better off.

At the very least, we'd have more money to spend on the new economy, which could help create jobs. And there would be more money to save for the future, which would end the need for Social Security.

I guess it's the same idea as giving people free health care or free educations. One big handout would no doubt end the need for countless others, ending some aspects of "big government" while creating one big one.

So, who wants to start the campaign?