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@masayume @thomasfuchs As far as I saw those "3D-printed" houses are solid concrete construction and very expensive, because that much concrete is pretty expensive. Also shit for maintenance, can't easily do wiring/piping because it can only be run either on layers and laid-over, and thus embedded, or run between drywall and the concrete. Can of course drill through but that's a long drilling distance!

We were promised cheap housing as a result but now it's more expensive than ever and being snatched up with this bullshit built-to-rent trend, with entire developments springing up marketing their new housing to rental firms with the hopes they'll be bought at even-more-inflated prices purely to rent, meanwhile often sitting empty because the prices are unafforable to so many, and those who can afford are the ones running the scams to begin with. Still waiting to see what inevitably bursts that bubble explosively, because surely CNN or whoever else will blame millenials or "the 99%" or whatever the hell scapegoat for the bad investment choices of others.

I'm just so salty about the housing in particular as I watch my town being transformed into an empty husk of a hellhole where my rent costs keep rising because new units are being built with higher rent, even though my unit hasn't got nearly the treatment to deserve those kinds of price increases. And even though I can afford it, I have friends living here who can't, and are frightened with nothing else they can really do. They already live in some of the cheapest housing in a "low-cost-of-living" area. So what do they do now?