“We are not builders,” said straight-talking Levitt, the operation’s mastermind. A variety of non-union subcontractors and “unskilled” workers moved from house to house, each performing one of 26 highly specialised steps in the overall assembly process – all using thoroughly standardised materials, all purchased directly from their manufacturers. He has too much to do William Levittįamously building one house every 16 minutes at the construction’s peak, using systems well-known in American automobile manufacturing but new to homebuilding. No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist.
Couldn’t the mass-production strategies he’d learned putting up military housing give it to them?Īnd so Levitt and Sons purchased a seven square mile tract of Long Island’s potato and onion fields and got to work, putting up all of Levittown’s residences between 19.
But then the founder’s son, William Levitt, came home from the navy with an idea: every young veteran returning to the United States would need a home.
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