Spanning about 71.5 sq m, a flat-packed house will arrive move-in ready, complete with a bedroom, kitchen, independent bathroom – and even preinstalled windows.
I don't think "move-in" ready is accurate if you also need a crane to set the thing up.
And sewer, water, and electricity.
So we solve the housing problem by lowering our standards instead of ending the game played by billionaires with us as pawns?
I think you know the answer to that
If dooms day prepper shows have shown me the cheapest is just buying those shipping container and burying them unground. Now you got a kick ass under ground house and no one will know where you live when society finally collapses from corporate greed.
Please don't. Containers are strong top to bottom for stacking, not side by side for earthworks. Buried alive is a bad prep.
That's why you gotta bury them sideways, obviously.
They’re toxic and likely covered in lead paint also from my understanding.
Just cover it in asbestos for insulation and to keep the lead away.
unground
Like peppercorns before I put them in the pepper mill?
How are they on safety and code compliance? How about offgassing of VOCs and other harmful vapors left over from the manufacturing process?
Why not buy local? China isn't the only place that makes prefab housing.
Because the cheapest manufactured homes in the US are now 100k shipped from the factory.
Inflation in the US (i.e. pure greed) is off the charts. People that think manufactured homes are affordable haven't looked in 20 years.
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