A Tempe family will soon move into a 3D printed house

Homeownership is becoming out of reach for more and more Arizonans. So Habitat for Humanity is betting on new technology to reduce construction costs. A family in Tempe will soon move into one of the first houses the organization has built using 3D printing.

Homeownership is becoming out of reach for more and more Arizonans. So Habitat for Humanity is betting on new technology to reduce construction costs. A family in Tempe will soon move into one of the first houses the organization has built using 3D printing.

In this story aired Jan. 4, 2022, on KJZZ:

We don’t have sufficient amount of experience to be able to scale this to get the amount of cost savings that people would hope.

– Mark Stapp, executive director of the Master of Real Estate Development program and Fred E. Taylor Professor in Real Estate