Owning your own home is part of the Australian dream. There's something special about the feeling that you get when you come home after a hard day's work to a place that is really yours - almost as good as a smashed avo on toast washed down with a flat white.But now, more than ever, the dream of owning your own home seems like it is just that- a dream. Housing prices keep on going up & up, and the house of your dreams seems like it's becoming less & less affordable.Median home prices have increased from four times median incomes in the early 90s to more than seven times today. House prices in Australia have more than doubled in real terms over the past 20 years. No wonder more than one third of Australian households are now renting!In Home & Hosed we take you through the Three Simple Steps to owning your first home.