Also, the FHA and the GI Bill provided cheap loans to buy single use housing for veterans, which were a significant chunk of the population. You can't really get an FHA loan to buy an apartment in a mixed-use building.
(On paper Black people were also entitled to GI bill benefits, but in practice this didn't really happen.) From Wikipedia:
> In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs about 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-white veterans.
(On paper Black people were also entitled to GI bill benefits, but in practice this didn't really happen.) From Wikipedia:
> In the New York and northern New Jersey suburbs about 67,000 mortgages were insured by the G.I. Bill, but fewer than 100 were taken out by non-white veterans.