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- futurology@futurology.today
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.
- player2 ( @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•1 year ago
For comparison, new 3D printed houses in Austin, Texas start at $475,000.
- there1snospoon ( @there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ) English4•1 year ago
Absolute fucking madness.
- MrSpArkle ( @MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
Now compare those homes to other homes of similar size nearby.
- dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English4•1 year ago
I’m all for it, but do the have to look like Tatooine huts?
- AdmiralShat ( @AdmiralShat@programming.dev ) English1•1 year ago
I assume they’ll put siding on it
- XTornado ( @XTornado@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
As a usual blue milk drinker I completely disagree.
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
This is interesting considering that Japan actually has a surplus of houses due to the dwindling population and people moving out of smaller towns and cities to the bigger ones.
- Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) English4•1 year ago
Yes but they look like a polystyrene ice cream container
- BlinkerFluid ( @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ) English6•1 year ago
So what you’re saying is, it’s a marketing issue.
Think of the children who want to live in a cup of ice cream.
- snooggums ( @snooggums@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I don’t think children are the ones buying houses.
- BlinkerFluid ( @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
looks around
I can’t find anyone buying houses, tbh.
- graphito ( @graphito@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Finished rooms? Does it include electricity, plumbing, flooring, wall finish, windows, land?
- shortwavesurfer ( @shortwavesurfer@monero.town ) English1•1 year ago
Thats not a bad price. If you can get a property for $13k you would get a mortgage payment of ~$400/mo plus insurance, taxes, and possibly PMI should put you around ~$550ish.
- oldone ( @oldone@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I quite like these - and hope for the best