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Ricksterdinium t1_iuxpubj wrote

Reply to comment by sassy-jassy in Apis Cor may be America's most advanced 3D printing construction company, yet it is shunned by traditional capital markets; 8 years after being founded, it still relies on crowdfunding websites. by lughnasadh

Beggars can't be choosers?

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DragoonXNucleon t1_iuxst30 wrote

This approach is miles more expensive than a cookie cutter home by main builders. The issue isn't that we can't build affordable homes its zoning issues and land costs. Why earn 10k profit a low income home when you can earn 50k profit for a high end home on the same land. In addition zoning laws mandate things like parking, minimum sizes, minimum set backs, to prevent low income people from lowering home values in richer neighborhoods.

The bullshit system and affordability crisis isn't a tech problem, its the system working as designed... by rich people to stay rich.

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DukeLukeivi t1_iuz1uns wrote

This is the thing -modular/prefab construction will almost always be more cost effective than this. Maybe when humanity gets to the point of building moon bases with lunar ice and substrate a system like this will be practical, but on earth a prefab house frame on a flat truck is going to be cheaper.

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BigOnLogn t1_iuz601n wrote

This is also the problem with finding someone to do our small bathroom remodel. Why bid on a $5-7k job when people are lining up for $40-100k bathrooms?

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