What caused the U.S. housing shortage? What, if anything, can cure it? To these questions, which directly or indirectly concern 139,000,000 Americans, FORTUNE devotes its entire April issue, achieving a remarkably concise diagnosis but a prognosis obscured by the chronic ill health of U.S. housing.
Chief causes of the shortage, FORTUNE concludes, were two wartime phenomena: 1) the marriage boom; 2) migration of war workers from country to city.
Says FORTUNE: "Most of the people now looking for housing are recently married couples who were living in their parents' homes before the war....
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