You’re not going to solve the housing crisis with single family homes in suburbs. You need to build dense, walkable cities with good public transportation, and with residential and commercial space mixed together instead of separated. For that, prefab apartments work the best by far, not some giant 3D printer. The USSR and China figured this out ages ago.
Let’s 3D print even more houses so instead of having 3 vacant houses per homeless person we get up to 5
I’m not sure how it is where y’all live but here the housing crisis is due to the government refusing to build more. Literally they could build more housing but they don’t want to.
I’m not sure where you are, but where I am we don’t even need more houses, apartments, or buildings. We have rows upon rows of buildings standing vacant and empty due to extraordinary high rents, corporate refusal to lease or sell the homes (as an investment), and zoning laws to prevent poor people from applying for loans to buy a home or set up a mortgage.
We have 29 vacant properties to each homeless person. 29:1…
Here it’s literally because the NIMBYs (and the goevrnment) refuse to build affordable apartments. It’s either single family houses or luxury condos. In fact they’re tearing down old low-rise, still kinda affordable apartments to build luxury high rises.
You wouldn’t download a property deed.
I think people actually do that.
The only way to solve the housing crisis is to decommodify it. Abolish private land ownership and make landlords non-existent. We HAVE enough houses. We just don’t USE it all because capitalism is a disease.
On the one hand I agree, on the other, well. Socialist economy, and subsequent transformation to communism requires massive industrial capacity. If a technology can make some part of the process easier or more streamlined, I believe it is our duty to welcome it.
To be clear I’m completely not against 3D printing. It’s a game changer in material science and manufacturing. BUT, it has applications where it works amazingly, but it also has techbros trying to shorhorn it into industries that don’t need it.
there are a lot of things needed to end the housing crisis but the most essential one is land reform.
it says reform on the tin but it’s actually revolutionary because it’s one of those things that you won’t be able to do without a revolution.
