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... 3 As soldiers returned home from World War II, started families, and settled into civilian life, a burgeoning demand for housing could finally be addressed and a residential building boom ensued. A significant rise in auto ownership to three out of every four families in the 1950s that occurred in conjunction with the rise of freeway development facilitated sub urban growth away from the city centers.3 Suburban expansion and home ownership continued in the 1960s and early 1970s, with 66 percent of the population owning their own homes in 1970, compared to only 55 percent in 1950.4 The suburban environment that developed in the postwar period from 1946 to 1975 represents the fulfillment of the American dream of home ownership.
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