The Largest 3D-Printed Home Community Is Set to Break Ground in Austin: Can Investors Get in?

Modern problems call for modern solutions, or so Icon and Lennar (NYSE: LEN) would have us believe. In the face of building-supply kerfluffles, yo-yoing lumber prices, and labor shortages, the duo has taken a different approach to creating new housing: Just print them.

Icon has developed one of the world's first 3D printers for houses. That's right. Utilizing the same technology that's used to build figurines and tiny tools on home 3D printers, Icon has managed to create a 3D printer for houses -- in which people will live.

Now, they've teamed up with Lennar to create a 100-home subdivision in Austin, Texas, to help ease the explosive levels of pent-up housing demand in that city.

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