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- Feb. 07, 1994: Died:William Levitt
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 07, 1994 Lock 'Em Up And Throw Away The Key
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <p> DIED. William Levitt, 86, developer; in Manhasset, New York.
- In the years following World War II when returning veterans
- armed with federal assistance created a major demand for housing,
- Levitt erected thousands of affordable suburban homes in the
- Northeast, most famously in the instant Long Island village
- that carried his name: Levittown. In the space of four years,
- it went from a onetime potato field to a community of 17,500
- one-family homes, along with schools and other public spaces.
- The acknowledged leader of the postwar housing revolution, Levitt
- faced criticism for the numbing similarity of his houses and
- the exclusion of blacks from his communities. Many of his millions
- of dollars later evaporated in business reversals.
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