Selling to dollars to reduce housing debt is really a fair thing to do, multiple assets classes is the normal strategy for an investment portfolio and the reason volatility in BTC is feared is that it unbalances that idea.
Right now action is quite steady, we might be breaking through a more important area here which is the spring lows to the highest range of BTC that surrounds the ATH. If we do see a break through then the OP question becomes more relevant.
If I had nearly nothing at all and moved from there to consider a real estate investment (just a small plot of land that's few thousand dollars, nothing major) then it means we should be all considering bitcoin as a savior of poor people, I had only few dollars in my bank account when I first came in here, and I made a living plus put money aside in thousands (living in a poor nation that means a lot) all thanks to bitcoin. But, the hurting part is the fact that I still want to diversify eventually and get other stuff too.