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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by DannyBee on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:49PM (#14563240)
"That's $100,000 a unit; you can build a much larger and fancier house for that kind of money."

Not here, where the minimum tends to run around ~350 a sq ft, and higher quality homes can be ~600-800 per sq ft.

(coming from the east coast, yes, this is bonkers, but ...)

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by quantumwannabe on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:08PM (#14563445)
It sounded like the $30 million was for construction costs only, not the price of land. The price of a house is mostly land, not the actual materials and labor that go into building the house. If the $30 million includes the land price, then it's a great bargain. If not, it feels like Google's being ripped off.
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