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[–] troyunrau 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not quite true. Many homes in Canada literally were ordered from the Eaton catalogue. Truck arrives with all the components, you assemble it yourself. We used to do these things.

[–] Bobble7 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah. We actually already do prefab with roof trusses. They are precision manufactured in a factory, shipped to the site and then assembled. This is extending the same principle to other home components like wall assemblies.

[–] adespoton 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, but it won’t fill the housing gap.

Those houses still have to be assembled somewhere.

The more likely solution is a big fibre optic rollout and getting all information workers out of the cities.

[–] Bobble7 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They would be assembled on site.

[–] adespoton 0 points 6 hours ago

Yeah; in most of the places where there are housing issues, the problem isn’t skilled labour to build houses or a lack of building materials (although those can become issues) — it’s the cost and availability and accessibility of land. There’s no “on site” to assemble them on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

We should give tax credit for wfh too perhaps.

Except our government doesn't actually want housing prices to fall, or for there to be less people in the city.

[–] Arkouda -2 points 4 hours ago

More people should be living in the city so the wilderness can remain the wilderness. Build up, not out.