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Y’all, You Can 3-D Print A House Now
Finally, there’s more than one way to build a house to American standards.
My fellow yees and haws, let me hit you with a fact you’re not going to like: people around the world right now are building themselves their own damn housing, with their own damn hands, out of things like mud, oil barrels, and manure. And you know what? That’s been how most human beings have rolled for most of human history. It’s not perfect, but its passible. And these people are probably just glad to have a roof over their heads.
Meanwhile, the world’s “wealthiest” nation is facing housing crisis because it refuses stop building houses like this in the middle of a wood blight and a crippling economic depression.
Especially at a time when your average homebuyer is trying to downsize, reduce their footprint, and live within very slim means, new constructions like this make absolutely no sense anymore. What do we need 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and a 3-car garage spread out across two stories for, if we aren’t producing the people or consuming the things you would need such a space for? Nevermind a newfound frustration with lawns — everything from their environmental impact to the overall…