History of World War II – The American Housing Crisis – Home they brought their warriors!

Witness the heart-rending saga of victories American soldiers, who returned home only to find that they were practically homeless! The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 ushered a sea change in the life of Americans. Most able-bodied men enlisted for war and were shipped to distant shores to fight the enemy. The country, therefore, faced an acute shortage of skilled manpower at home. One of the areas that suffered the most was housing. The building industry, stripped of skilled labor, found it difficult to keep up the pace it had generated in the years just prior to America’s full-fledged participation in the war. Thus, when the war was over, the victorious army returned home only to be confronted by another challenge – the lack of adequate housing. This informative Video deals with the post-war housing crisis and the efforts of government agencies to solve the problem.