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Citation? We also created a lot of public housing projects in cities after WWII.

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In a nutshell, America had a huge pent up demand for housing because of the Great Depression which immediately preceded WW2. Large numbers of American men served in the military during WW2, nominally granting "all" of them the same benefits, including access to help with mortgages. In practice, this mostly went to white soldiers. The Birth And Death Of America's Oldest Suburb is about Levittown. https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-death-of-americas-oldest.html https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-... Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. ... which built the district as a planned community for returning World War II veterans between 1947 and 1951. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York The G.I. Bill aimed to help American World War II veterans adjust to civilian life by providing them with benefits including low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans and financial support. African Americans did not benefit nearly as much as White Americans. Historian Ira Katznelson argues that "the law was deliberately designed to accommodate Jim Crow". In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I.... In the United States, suburbanization began to occur in mass amounts after World War II, when soldiers returned home from war and wanted to live in houses outside of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization The rapid growth of homeownership and the rise of suburban communities helped drive the postwar economic boom. Suburban neighborhoods of single-family homes tore their way through the outskirts of cities. William Levitt built the first Levittown, the archetype suburban community, in 1946 in Long Island, New York. The country’s suburban share of the population rose from 19.5% in 1940 to 30.7% by 1960. Homeownership rates rose from 44% in 1940 to almost 62% in 1960. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-rise-of-suburbs-2/ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-r...

In a nutshell, America had a huge pent up demand for housing because of the Great Depression which immediately preceded WW2. Large numbers of American men served in the military during WW2, nominally granting "all" of them the same benefits, including access to help with mortgages. In practice, this mostly went to white soldiers. The Birth And Death Of America's Oldest Suburb is about Levittown. https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-death-of-americas-oldest.html https://thecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-and-... Levittown gets its name from its builder, the firm of Levitt & Sons, Inc. ... which built the district as a planned community for returning World War II veterans between 1947 and 1951. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York The G.I. Bill aimed to help American World War II veterans adjust to civilian life by providing them with benefits including low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans and financial support. African Americans did not benefit nearly as much as White Americans. Historian Ira Katznelson argues that "the law was deliberately designed to accommodate Jim Crow". In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I.... In the United States, suburbanization began to occur in mass amounts after World War II, when soldiers returned home from war and wanted to live in houses outside of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbanization The rapid growth of homeownership and the rise of suburban communities helped drive the postwar economic boom. Suburban neighborhoods of single-family homes tore their way through the outskirts of cities. William Levitt built the first Levittown, the archetype suburban community, in 1946 in Long Island, New York. The country’s suburban share of the population rose from 19.5% in 1940 to 30.7% by 1960. Homeownership rates rose from 44% in 1940 to almost 62% in 1960. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-rise-of-suburbs-2/ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory2ay/chapter/the-r...