This is the kind of thing I'd expect to see more of if we deregulated the building industry. A handful of friends could put up a house like the one shown in th

This is the kind of thing I'd expect to see more of if we deregulated the building industry. A handful of friends could put up a house like the one shown in this article pretty quickly and cheaply. See also my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29224482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29224482 > > There is one issue with the developers - they have less incentive to build enough homes to actually drive down prices via market forces because it means less profit for them. > People were building their own homes for centuries before there were "developers". I would argue that over-regulation has made it extremely difficult for small builders or family builders to attempt to build their own homes. Only large corporations with a legal team can run that gauntlet. > If regulation were reduced, we'd probably see a lot more small time builders, or people taking classes to learn how to build their own homes, cooperatives being set up (possibly organized through Y Combinator startups dedicated to that) where people could Amish-style bring a community together to build homes.