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So are high prices not an incentive for house builders to ramp up and build more houses? What is the breakdown of costs to building a new house between labor,
by floxy 3y ago
So are high prices not an incentive for house builders to ramp up and build more houses? What is the breakdown of costs to building a new house between labor, materials, land, permits/inspections, construction loan burden, etc.? Is anyone working on tech to reduce construction costs of new houses? There are more out-there things like 3D-printing structures. But how about more conventional/mundane things. How hard would it be to have a robot that could lay asphalt shingles and staple them in place? Maybe mudding/taping sheetrock would be not-too-difficult to automate? I'm assuming the raw materials are pretty well automated at the factory (things like sheet rock, 2x4's at the saw mill, plywood, etc.)