> either due to laws Right. If it was legal to build tiny, cheap houses, you could build tiny, cheap houses, including using this tech. But since it isn't, y

> either due to laws Right. If it was legal to build tiny, cheap houses, you could build tiny, cheap houses, including using this tech. But since it isn't, you can't. The issue with housing in the bay area is NOT, by any possible stretch of the imagination, that it's technically challenging to make small, crude houses cheaply enough. Plus: > not even including land and permit cost. But you do need the land and the permit. And once you have those, why not build a nice house? It's sensible to try and use the scarcest resource most efficiently, and in coastal CA, the scarcest resource is neither building materials nor labour.