Broke: Fighting homelessness with housing
Woke: Fighting homelessness with police
Bespoke: Fighting homelessness by imposing work requirements on disabled people.

Yeah modular has been losing money for people convinced it's the Next Big Thing for over half a century.
William Levitt (of Levittown) launched a modular company, built a factory, won federal support . . . and closed it all down in 3 years.
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(Or a 30% tax credit through the IRA if you install before the end of this year. Unfortunately it's too late to stack both incentives)

There are pretty big utility incentives for installing them, because of their ability to time-shift demands on the grid away from peak hours. The rebates run through installers, who have to apply on your behalf during a limited window each year that opens sometime soon.

Prophetic hat.

When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.

Journalists: It’s bad for you!

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Also you have to engineer pre-fab modular stuff to hold up to stresses during shipping that it doesn't have to hold up to on-site.

One multifamily modular went up near me, but the developer said the transportation costs cancelled out the construction savings.
My neighbors have an ADU designed by a pre-fab company -- but site-built by a contractor, because the pre-fab company went bankrupt after pulling their permit.

There's a graveyard's worth of companies that thought they were going to wring significant savings out of prefab/modular and went under.

The Post never disappoints.

The compressor's so quiet i can barely hear it when it kicks on next to me. Leagues quieter than the roar and groan of the aging tankless gas heater it replaced.

Yes, the tank's super-insulated. It stores hot water all night and only reheats it after morning showers, when the sun's hitting the rooftop PV.
Also: it stores water at scalding temperature, then mixes it down to tap temperature--the volume we get from the tank is roughly twice what we store in it.

Especially when it comes to housing policy debates that pit rank-and-file YIMBies against tech investors that fund the orgs. California Forever seemed like a big fault line.