2. Use the excerpt below to complete the sentence.
To reach our long-range goal of adequate housing for all our people, comprehensive housing legislation is urgently required. ... At a minimum, such legislation should At a minimum, such legislation should open the way for rebuilding the blighted [poor) areas of our cities and should establish positive incentives for the investment of billions of dollars of private capital in large-scale rental housing projects. It should provide for ... half a million units of public low-rental housing....
President Harry S. Truman, 1947
These objectives were meant to counter the effects of the...
A.) destruction of large areas of cities because of anti-war unrest.
B.) rural to urban migration to find jobs during and after World War II.
C.) continuation of New Deal programs to provide direct relief to the unemployed.
D.) movement of major industries from cities in the Northeast to other regions.