Could New Ways of Building Make Housing More Affordable?

新型建筑方式能否让住房更实惠?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

2026-06-23

12 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

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 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • This podcast is sponsored by Comcast Business.

  • When business leaders struggle to get measurable value out of artificial intelligence, it's often because they're

  • operating AI on top of disjointed architectures, says Ahmed Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Comcast Business.

  • That's why we make sure AI works with the connectivity fabric that permanently links people,

  • applications, data and machines everywhere and all the time.

  • That's continuous intelligence.

  • Later, he'll explain why it can bring cohesion to AI deployments.

  • Hey listeners, it's Imani Moise for The Wall Street Journal.

  • Your money briefing is still on a break,

  • but we're diving back into our series on the biggest financial hurdle facing Americans today, housing.

  • One reason homeownership has become so expensive is simple.

  • Demand is high, supply is low.

  • To fix America's housing shortage, do we need to throw out the old blueprint?

  • From new designs and new materials to even shifting construction off-site,

  • today we're looking at the outside-of-the-box approaches some developers are turning to to get more homes built.

  • What's news host Luke Vargas spoke with WSJ housing reporter Nicole Friedman about the future of home building

  • and whether cheaper construction will be enough to make housing more affordable.

  • That's right after the break.

  • Continuous intelligence has the ability to keep insights moving, turning signals into decisions

  • and decisions into actions without losing context, momentum or trust.