The Full Picture

The Housing Crisis in Numbers

The data behind why Project Rebirth exists — and why 3D-printed additive construction is not just a good idea, but the most urgent solution available.

The Scale of the Problem

771,480
Americans experiencing homelessness in 2024
↑ 18% — largest single-year jump ever recorded
150,000
Children among the unhoused
A record high in 2024
7.3M
Shortage of affordable rental units
For extremely low-income households nationwide
60%
Increase in median home price since 2019
From $258K to $412,500
13×
More likely to be unhoused after incarceration
vs. those without a criminal record
45%
Less to build with 3D printing
vs. traditional construction cost per sq ft

City-by-City: Unhoused Population

Point-in-time counts, 2024–2025

Phoenix, AZ9,734 +67%
Portland, OR12,034 +67%
New Orleans, LA3,200 +22%
Grand Rapids, MI1,139 +70%
Hawaii / Maui10,227 +87%

% shown above each bar = recent rate of increase

Housing Costs Are Outpacing Everything

US median home price vs. median monthly rent, 2019–2024

YearMedian Home PriceMedian Rent/mo
2019$258,000$1,080/mo
2020$293,000$1,100/mo
2021$347,000$1,200/mo
2022$400,000$1,400/mo
2023$410,000$1,550/mo
2024$412,500$1,650/mo

3D Printing vs. Traditional Construction

Cost per square foot and time to structural shell

Cost / sq ft (USD)

Traditional Build$225/sq ft
3D Printed$110/sq ft

Days to structural shell

Traditional Build120 days
3D Printed2 days
45% less
cost per square foot
98% faster
time to structural shell

The Bandage Economy

Here is what we have watched for decades: governments allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to task forces, studies, temporary shelters, and short-term housing subsidies — and then declare progress. New Orleans spent $216.3 million on homelessness initiatives between 2019 and 2024. The unhoused population still rose 22%. Phoenix built over 1,400 shelter beds in two years. Then federal funding expired, and every gain was erased in a single count cycle. Hawaii nearly doubled its homeless population in one year after a wildfire destroyed 2,200 structures — and the primary bottleneck to recovery is still, two years later, the availability of permanent housing.

Organizations hold press conferences. Politicians offer statements. Frustrated civilians — rightfully outraged — take to social media to demand change. But frustration without a solution is just noise.

We are done making noise. We built a solution.

We Are Not Just Building Homes

Every structure we build is a statement about the kind of world we believe is possible.

Traditional construction generates massive waste, relies on energy-intensive supply chains, and leaves a carbon footprint that compounds with every new development. The communities hardest hit by the resulting climate instability — from the Maui wildfires that destroyed over 2,200 structures in a single night, to the flooding that repeatedly displaces families in New Orleans — are the same communities already carrying the heaviest burden of housing insecurity.

We are not building affordable housing that happens to be green. We are building the infrastructure of a sustainable civilization.

Our additive construction model uses low-carbon, rapid-curing composite materials engineered for structural permanence and thermal efficiency. Every unit we deploy is a high-quality, durable home that treads lightly on the earth — because the people we serve deserve both. Not one or the other. Both.

Why 3D-Printed Additive Construction

When we discovered additive construction technology, the path forward became clear. Here is the reality we cannot ignore:

The median home price in the United States hit $412,500 in 2024 — a 60% increase since 2019. Rents have risen 54% over the past decade. In Arizona alone, rent prices rose 84% between 2019 and 2024. The supply of rental units priced at $1,000 or less per month shrank by over 7 million units in the last decade — while high-rent luxury units surged 153%. Home buying fell to its lowest level in 30 years in 2024. These numbers affect real families in every city and town across America — families who work hard, play by the rules, and still cannot get ahead because the cost of simply having a roof over their heads keeps rising faster than their wages.

3D-printed additive construction disrupts every one of those variables:

• A traditional home costs $150–$300 per square foot to build. 3D-printed construction delivers comparable structures at $70–$150 per square foot — up to 45% less. • A traditional structural shell takes months. A 3D-printed structural shell can be completed in under 48 hours. • The technology uses low-carbon, rapid-curing composite materials — which qualify for government sustainability grants and dramatically reduce the environmental cost of construction. • The process requires advanced technical skills — which means it creates high-paying, high-demand jobs in the communities building the homes.

There is also a pressing urgency: major corporations have identified this technology, and they are beginning to move toward controlling it. If 3D-printed construction becomes monopolized by the same market forces that inflated traditional housing, we will simply rebuild the same unaffordable system with newer machines.

But if we move now — if we bring the people who need this technology most into the training pipeline, into the workforce, and into the building process — we change the equation entirely. We drive costs down. We create pathways to homeownership for families who have never had one. We make affordable housing not a charity program, but an economic reality. And we build something that lasts.

This is a systemic engine — and it takes all of us.

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