How can we reduce poverty? By engineering prospersity!

It is now possible to 3d print a house in less than 24 hours. The cost of housing is inflated, and the cost of land is also inflated. Just as we will have self driving cars, it is also true we will have houses which are 3d printed or even 4d printed (self constructing houses).

There are multiple paths to freedom. I've posted previously ("Project Noah's Arc - a DAC/DAO of arcologies can resolve global poverty once and for all.") on basic income and on the idea that we can engineer prosperity rather than to try to achieve it through political manifestation, civil war, or weakening of property rights through redistribution. Instead, by simply making the cost of living cheaper, we can reduce the effects of poverty even if inequality remains in the world.

Federico Pistono posted on how Robots Will Steal Our Jobs. In his documentary he mentions that houses can be built by 3d printing, and that this can influence the construction industry. Cheaper housing is the "cure" for homelessness, because when housing costs less to produce, it can become an abundant commodity, and when it becomes abundant, it can be given away for free or for minimal labor. So what are the political forces which might slow this process down?

XtreeE is a new startup which offers a solution, by applying 3d printing techniques to construction. At the same time if the cost of housing collapses will that reveal that housing is in a bubble? What happens to the people who paid $300,000 for a house if in 10 years a $10,000 house is just as good? I expect that this technology will be politically suppressed in the United States, similar to how taxi unions are against the Uberization of their industry. On the other hand in countries outside of the United States the cost of housing could become dramatically cheap and $10,000 might be enough to live in a house which would cost $300,000 in the United States.

How long will it take before we reach a $10,000 house in the United States?

References

1. http://www.3ders.org//articles/20160921-french-startup-xtreee-is-developing-direct-3d-printing-for-construction-processes.html
2. https://steemit.com/basicincome/@dana-edwards/project-noahs-arc--a-dacdao-of-arcologies-can-resolve-global-poverty-once-and-for