3D home printing has matured enough as a technology to be viable. Yet despite the global housing shortage, chronic to so many countries, has yet to take off. Here the $37,600 price includes finished rooms inside. The company is aiming to build on cheap land in Japan’s smaller cities. They specifically mention targeting remote and work-from-home workers as customers.

This way of doing things could work for 10’s of millions of other people around the world, especially as starter homes. The pandemic accelerated a permanent shift to WFH for many people. If some of them had a choice between never being able to afford a home in big cities, but but getting on the property ladder with this option, it seems obvious to me millions of people around the world would choose it.

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    1 year ago

    Is the implication here that the cost of building a home doesn’t nearly match what it is sold for?

    I’m curious just how much inflation there is due to supply/demand.