Concerning paragraph 15:

I'm completely lost on the reference to home ownership being an old policy used to assuage returning WWII veterans. As far as I knew, home ownership has been considered a basic desire going back a long time in America. I always considered the confluence of soldiers returning home from a war and desiring to settle down with a family, combined with an economic upswing, to be the main factor driving up home ownership and the creation of suburbs as we know them.

What's an amoire?