LOL !
The essential problem goes far beyond real estate and is found in the very corrupt Federal Reserve system we live under -- which issues almost worthless fiat currency -- and the private banking cartel that runs the system gets to charge interest on every dollar that is printed to the taxpayer.
Read this: The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Read the book in 2007. It was like a preview.
But it is also a bit to much for most.