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First, 80% of the cost of housing in the Bay Area is location. Second, many houses from 100 years ago didn't have features like electricity and indoor plumbing
by powera 7y ago
First, 80% of the cost of housing in the Bay Area is location. Second, many houses from 100 years ago didn't have features like electricity and indoor plumbing. Third, we're not going to invent magical 3D printers that make houses out of thin-air.
- nostrademons 7y agoAlready have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCzS2FZoB-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCzS2FZoB-I (The workmanship isn't as good as a conventional contractor, but you can't beat the price, and they're being aimed at people who would otherwise be homeless or living in shantytowns.)
- closeparen 7y agoWatch a planning meeting sometime. One of the typical community demands is to use onsite union carpenters vs. brining in prefab components from assembly lines elsewhere. Like so many things about Bay Area housing, we actually do have the capabilities, we’re just throwing up legal roadblocks to their use.
- baroffoos 7y agoAutomated house construction certainly seems like a possibility once it costs less than just paying someone to do it.