Riches to Pennies - William Levitt's Investment Track Record:
✅ Took Advantage of Government Incentives and Aligned with Policy
🔂 Successfully Reapeated this Process Throughout the 1950s
⛔️ Refused to Adapt to Tighter Zoning Laws in the 1960s
⛈️ Implemented a Series of Failed Investments
🪙 Died Penniless
Levitt Logic heeds warning and inspiration from Levittowns which became popular after Congress passed the 1948 Housing Bill.
This piece of legislation freed up millions of dollars in federal funds that encouraged home ownership among returning WWII Veterans and many other tired city dwellers.
Founder and author of Levittowns, William Levitt began to master mass housing production, allowing for a quicker and cheaper home-building process. Blinded by ambition and previous success, he refused to understand that Levittowns were made possible by the public policy that was enacted.
Levitt’s success soon unraveled. By the late 1970s, Levitt and Sons had barely escaped bankruptcy, and it emerged as a small, conventional homebuilder, which it would remain until it went out of business for good in 2018. Levitt himself would leave Levitt and Sons in the early 1970s, lose his fortune after a series of failed development projects in the U.S. and abroad, and die penniless in 1994.
Levitt’s model of large-scale, efficient homebuilding using mass production-style methods worked for a brief window in the 1950s, but by the end of the 1960s, a changing housing market and increasingly strict land use controls meant that such methods were no longer feasible.
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