The American House Poem, 1945-2021 - Hardcoverby Walt Hunter (Author) The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945 2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage