Housing Shortages
The previous home builders began changing into these during the war.
What are war laborers?
California, Texas, and Florida were classified as this during the migration to the Sunbelt.
What are the Big Three?
People who mass produced homes and helped home supply during WW2.
Who were the Levitt Brothers?
This Bill allowed war veterans to get home loans at low interest rates.
What is the GI Bill?
The belt of warm weather states that stretches across the southern third of the United States, from Florida to California.
What is the Sunbelt?
The new way to make homes.
What was 27 steps and 27 teams?
This community was the first housing community created by Levitt Brothers.
What is Levittown?
The reason that businesses decided to move South.
Homes with two bathrooms and one bathroom.
What are identical homes?
This was the percentage decrease of houses made during the war.
What is 90%
The two technological advancements made during the 50's that influenced many people to move to the Sunbelt.
What is air conditioning and massive water projects?
The cost of the homes.
What is $8000
This was the time period during which the production of houses increased greatly.
What is after the second World War?
This increased in the states, and made people okay with their low labor costs.
What is tourism?
These families were the average families of the time and often resorted to cheaper, smaller houses.
What is a middle class family?