Single women bought 25% of the homes sold in the US during 2008. Single men bought another 9%. So 1/3 of all homes in the US in 2008 were bought by singles. Meanwhile, in Europe, Euromonitor estimates that one third of people now live alone (that’s about 200 million households).
Ref: Financial Times 13/14 February 2010 ‘ Collective Singular’.
It also means that women are now the most vulnerable population group in terms of negative equity and a lifetime of debt and related financial problems. As we are discovering here in Ireland.
Truly they are ‘indebted’ to feminism. As I’ve noted myself:
http://www.turbulenceahead.com/2010/02/debt-in-city.html