8 Innovative Solutions To the Housing Affordability Crisis

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House-Building Robots

BotBuilt, a home manufacturer based in Durham, North Carolina, creates prefabricated housing components with robots.

BotBuilt’s systems use cutting-edge software to convert plans into a building directive for a robot, which then selects lumber, assembles the framing and fastens everything together. The components are then shipped to the building site where a human crew assembles them, cutting production time considerably.

How this helps

BotBuilt’s robot technology removes a huge portion of the labor. Contractors can then do more with fewer employees, lowering the overall cost of building the home.

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Printed Homes for First-Time Buyers

Diamond Age, a homebuilder based in Phoenix, Arizona, utilizes 3D-printed homes. Huge machines can print buildings from concrete material faster than a crew can build them, allowing homeowners to move in faster while potentially requiring fewer human contractors.

How this helps

It lowers the cost of construction. Diamond Age’s focus on first-time homeowners helps a subset of the market hit the hardest by today’s prices.

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