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    1 day ago

    To add: Baby boom wasn’t horny vets.

    They through money at it. One form was affordable mortgages

    government-guaranteed mortgages in the 1930s and 1940s led to dramatically higher rates of home ownership among young couples. “Mortgage insurance programs led to 3 million additional births from 1935-1957, roughly 10 percent of the excess births in the baby boom,