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Re:Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019 by Balgair on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:19PM (#18572250)
> housing crises all over the USA.

If they can really get the economics of scale going, this has broader implications for long term disaster relief, poverty (not extreme poverty unfortunately), refugees, and climate change migrations. Cheap, robust, and easy housing has long been a goal for architects. Bauhaus has it's roots in German communist housing for the masses, after-all.

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Re:Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019 by isostatic on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:46PM (#18573867)
Isn’t a lot of cost of housing in local labour (building the houses or building the bulk materials like brick or planks locally)

Would prefab housing really help with poverty when the production is suddenly offshored?

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