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Can startups assist clear up the U.S. housing disaster? BuildCasa thinks so. It raised a $3.5 million spherical of pre-seed funding to let California owners construct new properties of their backyards. — Anna
Leveraging new zoning legal guidelines
There aren’t sufficient properties within the U.S., which would wish one other 3.8 million models of housing to fill the hole, Axios lately famous, citing information from Freddie Mac. And whereas causes and penalties are open to debate, it shouldn’t be too controversial to say that growing housing provide is a part of the answer.
What does this should do with startups, you could ask? Fairly a bit, it seems: New enterprise fashions have emerged on account of current legal guidelines that goal to resolve the housing scarcity.
