> Mobile homes are made cheaply at present because they are aimed at the bottom of the housing market, but there's no reason they couldn't be made as high-quali

> Mobile homes are made cheaply at present because they are aimed at the bottom of the housing market, but there's no reason they couldn't be made as high-quality as you like. See also: "tiny homes". But yeah, prefabricated housing definitely gets a bad rap. I'm pretty gung-ho about the idea of more buildings built from TEU-sized or FEU-sized building blocks - i.e. not necessarily converted intermodal containers (though container homes are cool, too), but blocks built to those dimensions and designed to be pieced together side-by-side or stacked together. Modular construction is one of the three "legs", I think, of driving down housing costs (the others being zoning reform - i.e. getting rid of artificial constraints against housing density or residential/commercial/industrial colocation - and the use of a land value tax to penalize land hoarding/speculation and incentivize denser development).