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2. List of New York City Housing Authority properties - Wikipedia

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   East New York: 19 8 and 14 1,586 June 30, 1958: Long Island Baptist Houses: East New York: 4 6 233 June 30, 1981: Louis Heaton Pink Houses: East New York: 22 8 1,500 September 30, 1959: Marcus Garvey Houses Brownsville: 3 6 and 14 321 February 28, 1975: Marcy Houses: Bedford-Stuyvesant: 27 6 1,705 January 19, 1949: Marcy-Greene Avs. Houses ...

3. Stick-built construction - Wikipedia

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   This term is used to contrast such a dwelling with mobile homes and modular homes that are assembled in a factory and transported to the site entirely or mostly complete and hence are not "stick-built". Stick-built homes are also built using a more traditional method of construction rather than a modular type. [2]

4. Tract housing - Wikipedia

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   Tract housing came about in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing skyrocketed. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical houses could be built in a "cookie cutter" fashion faster and more cheaply to fulfill the growing demand. Developers would purchase a dozen or more adjacent lots and conduct the building construction as ...

5. List of Levitt & Sons Housing Developments on Long Island

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   During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...

6. 'My house is unsellable': This Pennsylvania woman bought ...

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   In 2006, Donna Schwartzbauer spent $15,000 on what she thought was a nice plot of land in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh.She decided to build a house on it and make it her ...

7. Levitt & Sons - Wikipedia

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   Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York. The company's designs and building practices transformed the home building industry and altered the north eastern landscape of the United States with massive suburban ...