A History of Operation Breakthrough

Prefab home manufacturer National Homes’ factory floor, via HUD.Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using factories and industrialized processes, instead of assembling them on site using manual labor and hand-held tools. This idea goes back decades: in the 1930s, Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius argued that the reason car prices had fallen ...