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2. The cheapest ways to build a house, and the most affordable ...

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   Here are some of the most affordable housing styles to build: Prefab homes: Modular or manufactured homes are more affordable because their structures are partially built off-site, rather than ...

3. DIY Kit Homes We'd Build Right Now - AOL

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   Want to buy a tiny house online? With these kits you can build an artist's studio, backyard she shed, rental guest house, or woodland vacation cabin.

4. Walmart is selling a tiny house for less than $16,000 - AOL

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   Walmart is selling a tiny, prefab home for less than $16,000. / Credit: Chery Industrial. Some Americans are turning to tiny homes amid high housing costs across the country, driven largely by a ...

5. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Asphalt shingles were cheap to manufacture and ship, and easy and inexpensive to install. Sears also offered a plasterboard product similar to modern drywall (under the name Goodwall) as an alternative to the plaster and lath wall-building techniques which required skilled carpenters and plasterers. This product offered the advantages of low ...

6. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue

7. Tract housing - Wikipedia

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   Tract housing came about in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing skyrocketed. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical houses could be built in a "cookie cutter" fashion faster and more cheaply to fulfill the growing demand. Developers would purchase a dozen or more adjacent lots and conduct the building construction as ...