Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes
As has been stated in other comments, it&#x27;s not that we don&#x27;t have enough homes or that we don&#x27;t have affordable homes.<p>Perhaps the &quot;free-market&quot; is not the optimal distribution system for housing. Said another way, perhaps the manner in which we meet our most basic needs of shelter, security, and stability should not be left to the free market.<p>A corollary then might be, perhaps if social and political frameworks had priority over (but not to the exclusion of) economic frameworks runaway real-estate prices might not so inevitably lead to the unnecessary but unyielding march of the unwilding of our environment (when there are massive tracts of dilapidated real-estate crying out for redevelopment), gentrification of communities and the concomitant loss the cultures of those pushed out into either the diaspora or relocated into projects, and the hand-to-mouth existence that many of us experience, even full-time and well paid persons.<p>$600 houses are a red-herring to the real issues, not a solution to anything.