Believe it or not, real estate owners back in the day were willing to sell their house in installments without upping the price. So neither of your suggestions

Believe it or not, real estate owners back in the day were willing to sell their house in installments without upping the price. So neither of your suggestions apply. Even with interest and predatory loans, people today are not buying properties until later anyway, so that's not really an argument. Secondly, in Islam the government has duties to perform, including providing good quality of life to its citizens, something we don't see done by so many governments today. Housing goes under this.