I mean, sure these $10k houses exist in the poorest counties in the country (WV and KY coal fields, Mississippi black belt, etc) but that's not a scalable solut

I mean, sure these $10k houses exist in the poorest counties in the country (WV and KY coal fields, Mississippi black belt, etc) but that's not a scalable solution. These counties only have a few hundred houses of excess housing capacity, and very little economic base to keep those houses maintained