• DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This was only ever true for white men for a narrow window from like 1945 to 1960, and only because they were being massively subsidized by the GI bill. Black people were cut out of the GI Bill, so they never were able to afford homes, and women weren’t even allowed to take out mortgages in their own name.