A playful solution to the housing crisis | Sarah Murray
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer game that allows home buyers to design a house and have it delivered to them in modular components that can be assembled on-site. Learn how her effort is putting would-be homeowners in control of the largest purchase of their lives -- as well as cutting costs, protecting the environment and helping provide homes for those in need.
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Houses are too expensive due to land value not building costs. Land value is growing because it is being artificially inflated by the way money lending works.
Also paying for water and electricity hookups.
also more land taken makes less farm land increasing the value of land specially farm land increasing a lot in price. Ive seen so much farm land taken away and turned into a land of houses. Now less food is being farmed increasing food cost as well.
mindlesstube we are going to have to go through a transition into vertical farming utilising each square meter. The problem is the land is brought with money that doesn’t exist until you sign on the line of your mortgage agreement. This is also why there is more debt in the world than there is actual money by a substantial margin
Tom Arnhem she’s still cutting the cost
The problem is not with architects and builders but with zoning and land speculation. Levying high land value taxes and using them to fund a citizens' dividend would work wonders for the housing market.
Instead of building individual houses, build large high rises - those seem to be more environmentally friendly, more cost effective, and often you have better access to public transit, further helping those two factors.
High rises don't actually make economic sense above a certain number of floors (optiminal is 6-8 in many cities, maybe 12 in high density areas like Hong Kong or Manhattan) because the cost of building each floor is more expensive than the last, you hit a point of diminishing returns where it's cheaper to buy more land... iow, it's cheaper to buy another square meter for more floor on the ground than it is to put another square meter of floor 12 floors up.
Interesting. Well, the point still stands - figure out the most economic number of floors to get the cheapest cost per a square foot, build as many of those as possible to try meeting the demand for housing.
So... Housing projects, where the crime rate is high and absentee landlords neglect all maintenance. We have that already. Then someone tries to ameliorate the issue by updating and remodeling the building, pricing the rent above what the residents can afford, putting them out in the streets, and turning the building into a luxury rental or condominium. Or, condemning the building (again, putting the tenants out in the street), testing it down, and building a luxury hi-rise in its place
I feel like I'm missing the point here. Is she dealing with housing, or just decorating a house? All I saw was a lot of furniture buying, which is hardly a solution to the housing crisis. I mean, if I missed something, please tell me.
Uncle Silver Gaming they didnt choose good stock footage, but you can also design the floor plan.
Though she touched on this subject a bit & I would like to expand on it a bit more - Stop having kids you can't afford. Birth control is a lot cheaper than a lifetime of expenses with kids!!!
rach valera the problem is not birth. The crisis came AFTER the population stabilized, so asking people not to give birth if they can't afford it is essentially stealing the rug out from under a person and telling them they shouldn't have been existing if they didnt want to fall on their face. Perfectly avoidable, not the fault of the person existing for the absence of accommodations.
Her website is placetechnologies.com
Her game isn't even up and running.
I think its a bit harder than that since real-state is one of the pillars of the banking system and vice-versa.
So you save on labor costs by having these components made in a factory at lower rates.Then you add 10 % to the cost so that for every 10 houses sold,1 is given away.Nice thought to give away houses,but how does this make the ones for sale affordable ? ?
THIS IS MY QUESTION TOO! She didn't talk at all about how these cuts in production costs help the "gamer" designing their house since they seem to be paying full market price for things like chairs at $995.
Single families or individuals sustaining a home is a relatively new idea that came to be after the war. The trend will be more people opting for shared accommodation. Families will stay together longer to cut costs and responsibilities. Your starting to see that trend already with the millennials staying at home longer. Shared accommodation isnt new, it has been happening for a very long time.
* Using a VR-enabled video game as a client-empowering storefront (nice),
* being very proactive about cutting building costs without sacrificing quality or safety (nice; if she is really accomplishing that),
* passing those savings onto the clients (making her company very competitive),
but then
* padding the price to clients; to pay for the houses of in-need strangers,
with the idea that they won't mind paying an extra 10% since we saved them 20% (example), so they still end up paying 10% less than with other companies,
so everyone wins.
Anyone who grumbles about this part must be clueless about this being on the better side of ~the norm~ for businesses.
Companies always add to their pricing, to generate extra for non-essential purposes that are specific to the interests of the company (or for the people running it).
The only way they can stay competitive (while doing that) is by finding ways to keep base-price low enough that the adjusted market price is still competitive.
It's not some evil scheme. It's the actual capital standard.
But rather than using the extra to pad their own wallets, or to generate legally-loopholed political bribe-funds (as many companies do),
this company is diverting the extra funds (instead) to in-need families, to help reduce suffering, disease, crime, housing-specific welfare costs, and mortality rates, which benefits everyone.
These sound like great ideas, to me.
But It's probably a catch22 for the speaker's company.
Sharing enough specifics that they prove it's a fully viable model (if it is), ...
could be giving competitors the edge they need to render her company's edge nullified.
For me, that makes this Ted Talk feel more like an infomercial for a specific company
rather than a Tesla-values effort to freely share a wealth of mutually empowering knowledge.
But I'm unsure.
I mean, if the missing specifics (with proofs) are on their website, then that just means that they chose to keep this talk simple, just to stir enough interest to provoke further inquiry.
Note to self:
When today's work is done, make this my next research project.
'I gave you a car that runs on water!'
'No, Ronnie, you've shown me a glass of water and some painfully transparent confidence.'
You have to mass produce building components to be assembled on site. And build them high so there is a lot of total floor area (about 10 storeys).
Wait.. You couldn't afford a home so you made a person not only pay for their home but pay for a portion of someone else's as well??
iloveyouamberappel and it ended up being cheaper for everyone with higher satisfaction.
What a nicely given speech on another worthless idea. Thanks Ted
How boring is this commercial
Nice advertisement, but I was expecting... you know, something more. This is just a commercial.
Nice ideas, all how to pour concrete more effectively. Does anyone have any idea what a waste of energy and raw material to burn cement? On big commercial buildings that is already a rarely, mostly used only for decoration purposes. If that does not worth to use at scale, why do we use it to build entire houses with?
Did she not say contractors were hard to find. So who's going to set up here pod on the lots she doesn't seem to have
I thought the Sims came out ages ago.
...of the closet?
Just think about the fact that someone who works in software application development, an extremely well paid profession, is priced out of the housing market.
Then reevaluate why young people are fucking angry about what the older generations did to the world economy.
This is my favorite by far
a culture of rent to own must encouraged and adopted in the world to help with the global housing crisis
Does anybody know what this game is? And what its called or a link.
This idea has been revisited and recycled literally hundreds of times in the architectural realm. Would have been interesting like 15 years ago or so.
What is the name of the computer game? is it available to download right now? help.
"Truly sustainable housing should be affordable to everyone, and available to all". I agree with her here, but not in a way she would agree with. You see, our ancestors were nomads. Homelessness is affordable to all and is truly sustainable and is also the state of housing for humans for the majority of human history. I have solved the housing problem! It isn't a problem. Now lets just end all the pesky laws against homeless people, and problem solved once and for all.
We are so many TED talks riddled with so many cliches.
Oh yay. Sims but for the rich.
Sims is already expensive
This is all well and good, but in the US, good luck getting a loan to cover what the banks consider a mobile home. This is still out of reach for the vast majority of people.
TheCountessAsuka Modular homes, which is what the speaker is suggesting, are not the same as mobile homes. In most states, you can choose to pull up a mobile home and move it to a new parcel of land. (In some, like New Jersey, you can only deliver one, to a slice of land in a mobile home park, where it lives until it dies.) Modular homes are built in 12- to 15-foot-wide modules, ship out to the construction site after the foundation has been poured and set, and assembled into the waiting foundation. Electrical and plumbing connections are made between the modules as they are joined to each other and the roof is unfolded and the gables set upright. They are inspected and connected to the municipal mains, further inspected for a certificate of occupancy, then you can move in (if you did a self build) or sell it (if you are a developer). Unlike mobile homes and stick-built homes, modular homes are practically hurricane-proof.
That said, the stick-built home industry has made it very difficult for both modular home developers and DIYers.
(Disclosure: my other half and I used to run a web site for a DIY modular home company.)
I used to be an insurance underwriter that specialized in homes. I always found that the modular homes were so much better built then the stick-built homes and I'm a huge proponent of them. Unfortunately, banks/lenders and insurance companies still consider them mobile (the rooms came in on a truck, right?) and now there is the added muddied water of unscrupulous realtors who label mobile homes as "manufactured modular". Because of that, no lender wants to touch an already in place "true modular" or write a loan to have one built. That's why I made the comment about it being out of reach for the vast majority of people. I don't know many who have a few $100,000 burning a hole in their pocket to cover the cost of everything without the lenders help. Until the bank and insurance get up to speed, this is a lost cause. (Edit for clarity.)
TheCountessAsuka Yeah, we noticed that it was also more difficult to get COs for modular homes because there were three or four different responsible parties: the builder, the foundation layer, the assembler, the architect, and the homeowner
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Can y'all provide a link to a site for the game?
TheSims.com
Grizzlyman MeinTeil I laughed so hard when I read sims
Excellent
Solution has always been this simple: Ban mortgages. Home prices will continue to inflate so as long as there are stooges willing to borrow money at interest. No debtors means homes prices crash down to their true affordable values.
It's not a game, just a simplified design program.
Sarah u gota wake up, worldwide land prices are on fire..in 3rd world countries in East Africa a small plot in the CBD can easily go for 1.5mUSD.
a dude in Africa.
very nice...🙏
What is the name of the game? If it’s free and doesn’t require buying a house it sounds really fun
For young Americans too sista
Blah-3. Everything that already exists is being revised here in the most boring way possible. She wants to do this and she wants to do that. But, the world is a evil place and things don't work like she wants so she started making modular houses with custom designs on 3d printers. Wow, what a load of innovation. She doesn't even have an idea why are houses so expensive. Are they expensive to built or are they expensive because on the land, location, taxes etc. Never expected this from TED.
How lond have you been without watching TED in the late years? It's has been going downhill very quickly from what it used to be.
im a young architect and contractor. prefab house can cut cost upto 70%. i dont think you know the point she want to make. lower cost means lower tax. the techbology can be applied to new development residential area with lower land cost. pardon my english
so many toxic people in internet. useless in reality. sad thruth
azan subhie what's new with pre fab houses? And what's new with using 3d printers to create it's parts? These technologies had been available for years now and are getting cheaper with time. So do we need a rocket scientist to tell us that? It's ridiculous how people who don't have the slightest idea about the practical aspects of things lecture everyone after reading some books that are publicly available. Why do you think the property prices are increasing? Do you understand a simple concept that if you make a house in a village then your cost will be lesser rather then creating it at a urban dwelling with porsh place? Do you understand that majority of the taxes are related to the actual land being acquired to built a house in the first place? Modular houses have been in existence for decades. 3d Printing technology have also been Printing these modular parts for years now and that too at a decreasing price. So what's new here? It's like telling people what 2+2 is. Every educated person knows the result. And it's no rocket science. TED have lost its class by inviting such copy cats.
Modular homes have been in very limited range. If she offers more customization while still allowing homes to be prefab, more power to her. Prefab homes cost less and are usually out of necessity for transport built stronger than traditional homes, this isn't even taking in consideration the speed of production and work place safety increases due to environmental factors being limited.
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Interesting. Part of the problem is the baby boom generation. You see I was born at the very tale end of that era. But my parents were the last one who could afford a home. But they're dying off now. So there's going to be a glut of properties on the market.
kd1s True, but a problem with that is the overinflated market cost (not necessarily value) of those homes. If someone in the 60’s made $30k a year they could afford a decent 3 bed house for their family. I make a little over $30k now and the $675 I pay in rent is as high as I can reasonably afford. I can’t afford to buy a house that has four whole walls.
kd1s that means in theory the price would go down
Personally, in my opinion, and according to my limited knowledge that i am aware of, and just from a couple of minutes into the video. I am not convinced by the idea.
people build houses on site, because there's foundation which is the base of the house. if it's not there, then how do you build the house? what if an earthquake or typhoon strikes?
secondly, from the way she speaks, although seems nice and a great idea on surface, i feel like ("feel" because i'm not sure about the fact behind what i'm saying but it might be true), that she lacks many other details regarding building houses, only looking for data of how many people that has housing problem. like some others who commented already says. there's a factor of location, water access, public access, environment, safety, and so many more than just "building house in 3d and printed" to put it simply it truly is just "the sims" but can be printed and sent.
also, is it accessible to everyone? or just the people who has money to do so? yes, i mean, she said it reduces construction costs at 20%, but again, does everyone builds their home from ground-up nowadays? a lot of people chose to buy an apartment, or buy an already made house, or someone else's house being sold. because i believe constructing costs way much more than buying what's already build. at best, it just opens up a new or easier job for people to be architect and/or interior designer
so the sims are the solution
These comments are horrendous...
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Great job!
We want see Gaurav Chaudhary on stage.
Now, what are the plans of bringing this business to 3rd world countries? It would be nice to have this here in Brazil.
the idea of 3D printing of homes is really nice, but the idea of giving away homes isn't that good. imo
We want Ganesh on stage Ganesha Molawde
What's the deal with homeless people? Just get a house LooL 4HEad
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Great ideas 😃 The app, modular components... Now let's make those expensive banksters, mortgages, architects, builders & unions get lost? Good-bye & good riddance 👋 Customised 3D Printing instead. Yes... it's the 21st century! Good luck with all you do 👍
fuller of crap than my Christmas turkey.
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I just came here because I saw her wearing leather pants , thought she'd be thicc . Not bad honestly.
I like this idea. But it seems like there should also be an effort to slow population growth. Why does there need to be 7 billion of us? Can someone explain this to me? Right now as it is, I can probably find someone who is almost an exact copy of me in probably something like a 100 mile radius. Why do we need so much redundancy? I think the answer is there is no good reason.
A F birth rates are already stabilizing,but now all the people born are aging up and living longer, which is the majority of the world population growth. That's why demographers expect it to even out soon. Birth rates are fine, resource use is an entirely different matter.
Socialism ... AGAIN !!
RemusKingOfRome5 Godess bless it.