Anon01/13/26, 15:51No.2970609
Back in the 80s it was popular to buy a kit condo, and that's the peak model.Arrives flat pack, bolt together on site. Built for owner occupants, not really designed to be moved, but can be disassembled rather then demolished, or moved short distances by hire crane.
You build one to escape the rental market, live in it while working for a proper house, keep it as a getaway or for the grandkids, or some random artist or grandma.There were even clubs who built them and communities built exclusively out of them. Many ended up as caravan parks decades later, which is why they have a poor reputation.
Actually, they were fucking great, it's just that people stopped building new ones, and increasingly poorer and poorer people bought up the dilapidated ones.But the part that's often not considered is the massive city planning headache sub prime builds normally cause, leaving whole city quarters falling apart and unserviceable. The prefab slum, decades after being built, was just bulldozed in a single day to make room for government flats. Infinitely preferable to cement shits, heritage slums.
