The Iranian marriage crisis

[MikeWaters]

apparently real estate is so unaffordable, that people can't get married, because they can't afford an apartment together.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...ies-cnnpartner

Ahmadinejad's government response to the crisis included a plan, unveiled in November 2008 by the National Youth Organization, called "semi-independent marriage." It proposed that young people who cannot afford to marry and move into their own place legally marry but continue living apart in their parents' homes. The announcement prompted swift outrage. Online news sites ran stories in which women angrily denounced the scheme, arguing that it afforded men a legal and pious route to easy sex while offering women nothing by way of security or social respect. The government hastily dropped the plan.