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Could New Ways of Building Make Housing More Affordable?

12 min · 23 jun 2026
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America needs more homes, but labor shortages and rising construction costs are making them harder to build. What's News host Luke Vargas talks to WSJ housing reporter Nicole Friedman [https://www.wsj.com/news/author/nicole-friedman?mod=WSJ_YMBPOD] about whether factory-built housing, modular construction and other innovations could ease the housing shortage. Listen to all episodes in our series on ideas for fixing the housing crisis. [https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/how-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-everyone-has-an-idea-837bbe40] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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