The alternative is that one partner can abuse the other, then throw them out on the street if they wish or if the victim complains.
I think it would be better if there was a real third option, but I’m not aware of it.
Thats literally what happened here. You have a blindspot to men being the victim like the person here was.
use the reclaimed former tax revenue to maintain separate apartments longer, even if just a bedroom one rents.
As for your second sentence- the total value of the US real estate market is about $56 trillion, so I kind of doubt that the government is going to make much of a dent here. There's not a lot of places where you can say even the US government doesn't have enough money, but....