Will homebuilding finally evolve? Lessons from the American experience with factory-built housing

Scott Ganz and Lynn Fisher ()
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AEI Economic Perspectives, 2019

Abstract: The history of homebuilding demonstrates that rapid adoption of prefabrication or more efficient production processes by homebuilders are more likely to be driven by market competition than by economies of scale within consolidated firms or by government intervention.

Keywords: Housing finance; US Housing Market; affordable housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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