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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

1945: POST WWII SUPER CRITICAL HOUSING SHORTAGE

Most of my senior-senior generation recall the critical housing shortage which was visited upon America as millions of our fighting men and women returned home to a peace time America. One of the movies that was included in the hundreds I watched in the Kuser Farm home theater was a housing shortage 20th Century Fox presentation of "Apartment for Peggy," starring my teen age Hollywood heart throb, Jeanne Craine. The above photo of the match box prefabricated homes being rushed into production is shown in the photo. These veteran homes were springing up all over the area. The article to the right of the graphic gives an indication of the severity of the problem.