Homes

Just how old is the problem of economic inequality?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

In the 1940s, the mass-produced tract homes that formed Levittown, New York—one of America's first suburbs—specifically barred "any person other than members of the Caucasian race" in their leases.

• By Madeleine Thomas

How just a little bit of cash now can prevent homelessness later.

• By Tom Jacobs

A sociologist notices an architectural oddity at the Laura Plantation in Louisiana.

• By Lisa Wade