An awful lot of US housing policy and general expectations are rooted in what happened when the soldiers came home from WW2. Modern suburbs were born of it. The

An awful lot of US housing policy and general expectations are rooted in what happened when the soldiers came home from WW2. Modern suburbs were born of it. Then, in the 69s and 70s, massive amounts of affordable housing, like SROs, was straight up torn down because Boomers came from unprecedented wealth and mostly did not need cheap dives just starting out. I think they kind of can be largely blamed, but probably not for the reasons most people would think of.