But there were special reasons for the 1950s explosion in suburban emigration that took the Cohen, Politik, and Pepper families out of Bensonhurst. The same GI Bill of Rights that educated the engineers who built the IHS also provided, through the new Federal Housing Authority, low-cost housing loans to veterans. But since the law was explicitly drafted to promote employment in the building trades, qualifying families could get thirty-year loans for purchasing new, single-family housing, but only five-year loans for repairing or renovating existing structures.
21.Local politicians needed space to build roads, so pushed out folks w/ no political clout. White flight due to the rise of new-dev suburbs in GI Bill Law made it cheaper than rent. New suburbs had no prev-connections, and cars dominated.
