Lou C
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We are going to plan some trips to look around.
The northeast is very tough, growing up in NYC in the 1960s it was so different than now, believe it or not, a middle-class person could afford a house, a car, a yearly vacation, and send their kids to college. Now the house I lived in (Brooklyn NY) from 1959-1968 which my parents sold for about $30,000 in '68 is now well over a million. A simple attached row house, windows only front and back, garage under the front porch, tiny backyard. We liked it though as kids.
Supply and demand. We need new Levittowns, not McMansions.
Levitt & Sons built 7,000 houses on former farmland in Nassau County (Long Island) NY from 1948-1955 or so, they sold for approx $7,000 then. Small, cheap, but was perfect for returning veterans. It's still a nice place to live but prices are way up like I said.
That's what we need. Another Levittown. Increase supply, is the only way.
There is plenty of open land further out on Long Island, I don't get why this isn't happening.
The northeast is very tough, growing up in NYC in the 1960s it was so different than now, believe it or not, a middle-class person could afford a house, a car, a yearly vacation, and send their kids to college. Now the house I lived in (Brooklyn NY) from 1959-1968 which my parents sold for about $30,000 in '68 is now well over a million. A simple attached row house, windows only front and back, garage under the front porch, tiny backyard. We liked it though as kids.
Supply and demand. We need new Levittowns, not McMansions.
Levitt & Sons built 7,000 houses on former farmland in Nassau County (Long Island) NY from 1948-1955 or so, they sold for approx $7,000 then. Small, cheap, but was perfect for returning veterans. It's still a nice place to live but prices are way up like I said.
That's what we need. Another Levittown. Increase supply, is the only way.
There is plenty of open land further out on Long Island, I don't get why this isn't happening.