3D Printed Homes May Lead to No More Homeless People in the US

[Feign]

A thing to consider is that while shanty towns aren't explicitly legal in the US, they're certainly allowed in many places. The building codes have to do with being able to sell a dwelling, rather than just to live in one. The homeless do often build their own shelters, though they're legally still considered homeless.

In fact, a large percent of the estimated homeless in America aren't in Urban areas, but in remote areas in the midwest and in the trecherous portions of the smoky mountains in the Southeast living off trapping and hunting. In general they actively avoid census takers, and pretty much anyone from local and federal government, so there's no clear number on them. These folks wouldn't set foot into a 3D printed house, or any kind of shelter that would be provided for them. Not because they dislike the concept of having a 3D printed home, but because they don't want to owe anything to the government.

Also, many urban homeless could live in existing project housing if they chose, but for their own reasons avoid it. Not because of money or availability but out of other reasons, often being on the run from someone, or believing they are on the run from something. Trying to get them into provided housing has already failed, no matter what it's made of.

[doodadDoes]

With the overabundance of foreclosed homes NOT going to homeless people (or the people on whom they were foreclosed) I seriously doubt they'll do anything like this. The end result will most likely be just a cheaper method of producing homes to sell to the same people who have been buying them before.