Housing Industry Needs to Reinvent
The housing industry (builders and designers) is in dire need of a new system / approach to building. I'll list a few reasons here: Construction costs and land / development costs have gotten out of control in recent years. The housing bubble has dramatically dropped the value of our homes. The fact right now is that you cannot build a new home inexpensive enough to compete with the glut of existing homes on the market. If we are seeing an economic recovery it's a small one - and the job market is not expected to improve for several years. New buyers are having difficulty getting loans or do not qualify for enough loan to build the kind of house they might have a few years ago. Home buyers are becoming much more aware of "value". Home buyers are increasingly environmentally conscious. Home buyers are more "hip" and expect good design and construction quality. So what the people want is a really cool, sustainable, well constructed cheap house. Is anyone out t...