The war in Europe is over, but the fight for housing is still under way. In some states, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York, there has been a real victory. In other states, such as California and Wisconsin, the fight has just begun.
"History repeats itself" is as true of housing and veterans' housing, in particular, as anything else. At the end of every war, from the Revolutionary War to the latest World War, there has been some governmental activity directed toward what may be called, "housing the veteran."' In, the case of the earlier wars, that sympathy for the veteran took the form of land grants and homestead loans. Housing was incidental-a bonus, the primary objective. This war has seen the greatest mass gesture at providing housing itself for the veteran.