And yet it not very long ago it was feasible for a single income earner on minimum wage to not only be able to afford a home, but do so while supporting a family.

Could that person be a woman? Was that by any chance directly after a major war that significantly reduced the male population? If you want to focus on the nice part that affected a single slender class of people and ignore all the bad parts stacked on to everyone else that made the conjunction possible there’s a political party made just for you.