List of Levitt & Sons Housing Developments on Long Island

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 community which set the standards in post-war neighborhood designs.^[2][3][4]

Levitt & Sons was the center of much controversy over the decades for its discriminatory and segregational housing practices.^[5] They refused to sell to People of Color and preferred not to sell to people of the Jewish faith (despite the fact that the Levitts were themselves Jewish), as, at the time, the Federal Housing Administration still allowed these policies in public housing developments, at the developer's discretion, with reasoning.^[6] The FHA even discouraged developers from selling to non-Whites by refusing to offer mortgages to communities that were racially integrated.^[6]