affordable housing construction

While affordable housing developers have been slow to embrace automation, for-profit companies are bullish on its prospects. What do they see as the benefits and drawbacks?

“In community development, there are a number of different goals. The first goal, obviously, is to produce housing that is affordable and accessible, but we also have other goals around providing jobs for people.”

Community developers try out new technologies and processes, oftentimes out of a sense of responsibility to help put potential solutions to the test.

3D printing, repurposed shipping containers, and offsite manufacturing have been held up as potential solutions to the country’s affordable-housing crisis. But are these new construction technologies helping?

To improve housing costs and economic conditions at once, look to the locations of modular housing factories.