History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1832 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Suburbs
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The idea
In the nineteen fifties the suburbs grew by forty-six percent, and homeownership rose from forty-three point six percent in nineteen forty to almost sixty-two in nineteen sixty.
In practice
Eleven of every thirteen new homes of the decade after nineteen forty-eight built in the suburbs, by Digital History's count.
Where people slip
The Federal Housing Administration, the Yawp notes, insured mortgages and eased lending terms.
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