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This is a technical solution to a political problem. The cost of building housing isn't the problem. As the article complains, the problem is housing is an inve
by nemothekid 4y ago
This is a technical solution to a political problem. The cost of building housing isn't the problem. As the article complains, the problem is housing is an investment and as other commenters have pointed out, our government has pretty much protected this asset class and all of America has the expectation that pricing will continue to go up.
If you flood the market with competitive homes you will destroy housing at an asset class; people understand this so they will block any technological improvement that would make housing cheaper.
- zachthewf 4y agoIn some sense I agree with you, and it would all be much simpler if the laws could be changed. But I think this is pretty unlikely at least in the next 30 years or so. But sufficiently cheap/fast technology is very difficult to block. Not sure if there's any actual way housing could get there (would have to be some sort of modular assembled-on-site sort of thing).