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One reason housing is expensive is that housing is expensive to build. Every house is handcrafted on location the same way it has been done for hundreds of year
by joshuaheard 6y ago
One reason housing is expensive is that housing is expensive to build. Every house is handcrafted on location the same way it has been done for hundreds of years. Imagine if you purchased an automobile that was hand assembled in your driveway. It would easily triple the cost.
A solution is to manufacture a home that could be built by bolting together mass-produced interchangeable parts. I have seen prefabricated housing, and that is a start. But, something more granular would be more efficient and less expensive.
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- system16 6y agoWhile houses are definitely not cheap to build, the massive increases in housing prices occurring in major cities - and increasingly rural areas - across the world is not fuelled by an increase in development costs.
- phendrenad2 6y agoI think that's outdated information. Most houses are built in big lots, with each house being mostly a copy-paste of the others with some cosmetic tweaks. Hell, they probably have software to mix and match cosmetics too. Then the housing lot is likely a clone of a lot the company has built in dozens if not hundreds of other locations. That said, prefabs would help greatly. It's too bad that prefabs would have to travel over the open roads, which limits the size. If houses could be lifted via helicopter to the destination, we would likely see costs fall greatly, through the power of the assembly line that Henry Ford invented oh thousands of years ago now.