There's a number of other factors that usually coincide with home ownership that would produce the same effects, chiefly domestic partnership and children. The

There's a number of other factors that usually coincide with home ownership that would produce the same effects, chiefly domestic partnership and children. The problem seems to be more that the increase in necessity of labor mobility has far outpaced the progression of transportation. Public transit in most of the US is a bad joke. And high speed transit is all but non-existent. I don't really have any idea how we reduce the car-culture, but that seems to be the root of the problem, not home ownership.