Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housing crisis fix

Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by petra on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:06PM (#14562810)

Isn't the main reason for high rent costs in desired places , is the high cost of land, not construction ?

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:37PM (#14563125)

We're talking CA here. Just parking a double wide requires a 30-man crew paid prevailing wage, ten grand in permits, etc, etc. Land and construction are both expensive.

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by nwah1 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:48PM (#14563786)

Yes. Hence why cheaper construction cannot solve this problem, even in theory. The more people cram into a location, the higher the land prices will go. Cheap modular apartments just continues what is already occurring.

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