Time for Change
ILLUSTRATIONS BY Bryan Christie Design
Following World War II, the combination of urban flight, cheap V.A. loans, reliable automobiles and highways, and the Baby Boom conspired to make the single-family home the most common type of housing in America. And the trend has endured. According to a Census report, in 2015 roughly 76 percent of all housing was single-family.
But household formations have changed considerably since the postwar era. In 1950, nuclear families— defined as a married couple living with one or more children— made up 43
