The volatility of the business cycle and an extreme shortage of housing were the twin problems of American economic life in the years following the First World War. Under the…
W04-13: Over the past 50 years, housing expenditures have accounted for more than one fifth of the nation’s gross domestic product. But housing’s influence on the…
Kimberly Vermeer, Josephine Louie
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January 1, 1997
In the 1930s and 1940s, mobile homes were viewed as recreational housing and were indeed highly mobile. The original intention of manufacturers was to provide temporary,…