scholarly journals The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fetter
Keyword(s):  
Home Ownership ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Rent Control

scholarly journals The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1001-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. Fetter
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
World War ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Ownership Rate ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. home ownership rate rose by 10 percentage points between 1940 and 1945, despite severe restrictions on construction during World War II. I investigate whether wartime rent control played a role in this shift. The empirical test exploits variation in rent reductions across cities that had similar increases in rents prior to control. This variation does not appear to be correlated with underlying trends also driving home ownership. Greater initial rent reductions led to larger increases in home ownership; rent control can account for a significant share of the increase in home ownership over the early 1940s.

Home ownership and rent control in Switzerland

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Werczberger
Keyword(s):  
Home Ownership ◽  
Rent Control

Protecting the home front: The 10-year global war on terror and our military families

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice A. Alfano ◽  
Jessica Balderas ◽  
Simon Lau ◽  
Brian E. Bunnell ◽  
Deborah C. Beidel
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
Global War

Children on the Home Front: Deployment and 62 Child Abuse in Army Families

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Gibbs ◽  
Ruby Johnson ◽  
Lawrence Kupper ◽  
Sandra Martin
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Home Front

‘A war film with a difference’: Adrian Brunel's Blighty and Negotiation within the British Studio System of the Late Silent Period

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Botting
Keyword(s):  
Silent Period ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
War Films ◽  
Box Office ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Studio System ◽  
To Come ◽  
First World ◽  
War Film

The creation and viewing of war films was one of the elements in the process by which Britain attempted to come to terms with the horrors of the First World War. During the interwar period, war films took two main forms: those which reconstructed famous battles and melodramas set against a wartime backdrop. However, the film Blighty, directed by Adrian Brunel in 1927, took a slightly different approach, focusing not on military action but on those who stayed behind on the Home Front. As a director during the silent period, Brunel trod a stony path, operating largely on the fringes of the industry and never really getting a firm foothold in the developing studio structure. He remains well regarded for his independent productions yet also directed five features for Gainsborough at the end of the silent period. Of these film, his first, Blighty, is perhaps his most successful production within the studio system in terms of managing a compromise between his desire to maintain control while also fulfilling the studio's aims and requirement for box office success. Brunel's aversion to the war film as a genre meant that from the start of the project, he was engaged in a process of negotiation with the studio in order to preserve as far as possible what he regarded as a certain creative and moral imperative.

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