| Do You Remember Levittown?
My mom moved into a Cape on October 3, 1947. I was an infant. I remember going to kindergarten at the church on Hempstead Turnpike…My mom still lives there today (90 yrs. old) I am now 60; as old as Levittown!
We moved into 83 Slate Lane in 1953…My mom and dad felt they had gone to heaven. My dad would lay on the patio and say “I wonder what the poor people are doing?” I would point out that we were the poor people and he would say “You’re crazy…I’m rich.” How wonderful for a place to make a truck driver feel like a king.
Growing up in a Levitt Cape during the 1950’s and 60’s with four younger siblings and a huge dog brings back many happy memories. We didn’t know that we lived in a very small, cramped house—we just had fun. The homemade kind of fun.
What would you do?
{Here’s your chance to take part in the discussion on affordable housing}
Luxury tax on residences that are not fulltime residences. Take all $ collected into an Affordable Housing Trust to acquire land and build affordable units…
Bring back 1/3 acre zoning.
Maybe we could take some lesson from Levitt and go back to mass producing simple cheap housing for those who don’t need upscale fancy amenities. Maybe we need to think back to simpler basic shelter needs.
I see a two-fold problem. First time buyers and empty nesters. We need more subsidies for first time buyers and more affordable housing for seniors plagued buy high property taxes.
I am 62 and yes, we plan to move, too, in the next few years because of school taxes. Probably the single most important reason to move. Combine school districts, consolidate administrators, do whatever is necessary to align school costs on a county-wide basis.
If I could afford to buy a house on Long Island I’d stay but I am one of many born and raised here looking elsewhere to live so that I don’t have to work multiple jobs just to pay basic bills. |
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