sentences:  After the conclusion of World War II, there existed in Massachusetts an acute shortage of housing for returning veterans of that war.The City-State Program of Massachusetts was devised as a solution to this problem.This program, approved on 23 May 1946 under Chapter 372 of the 1946 Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, allowed the city of Newton to borrow and spend money to construct new housing specifically for veterans of World War II.