Comment on Home-building robots could help fix the housing crisis
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 13 hours ago
Either the construction costs more by adding the bots to the crew, or they cost the same with the owners of said bots pocketing the difference of reduced labor. The chances of costs actually going down by cost savings being passed through are roughly zero.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
Its really to compensate for the lack of framers.
Five years ago the average age of a framer was 55.
This is what happens when you don’t have a new generation of people trained to do something - constrictors have no choice but to use automation.
I’m not blaming anyone - its just an observation of pressures.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 15 minutes ago
At least in the US it hardly seems a lack of building capacity, but that the final prices are bid to levels outside for the reach of the average person by investors. I live at the edge of nowhere and in just the past half decade there where at least two fairly large developments of not too special copy paste houses stood up. They all entered the with prices on the upper end of $300K and seem to have gotten snapped up right away. Statistically I make more than the the average by a decent margin, but there’s no chance I’m paying for an almost $400K place. Even if I had the old 20% down it’d approach somewhere around $3000/month.
just2look@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
It is super easy to attract more people as framers and construction in general. Pay them a wage/benefits that make the work attractive. If there aren’t enough people trained, then use your aging workforce and start a paid apprenticeship program. Voila you have a younger workforce trained to do the work. That cuts into profits though, so they would rather blame made up BS for housing issues.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 11 hours ago
God forbid we mentor new people.