{"id":190777,"date":"2021-10-06T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/as-lumber-prices-boom-some-are-building-homes-out-of-metal"},"modified":"2021-10-06T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:30:00","slug":"as-lumber-prices-boom-some-are-building-homes-out-of-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/as-lumber-prices-boom-some-are-building-homes-out-of-metal","title":{"rendered":"As lumber prices boom, some are building homes out of &#8230; metal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit GettyImagesAs the housing market continues to boom and the prices for wood products used in making new houses are at record highs, some are starting to build their homes with unconventional materials.With the U.S. facing a housing shortage of more than 5 million units, Amit Haller, a technology entrepreneur known for developing a Bluetooth communications chip sold to Texas Instruments for $50 million in 1999, is building what he calls the Tesla of homes.While housing issues have been a real issue since the start of the pandemic, Haller&#8217;s company has actually been building in unconventional ways for some time now, USA Today reported.Just toured the veev factory &#8211; it is the future of how homes will be built. Better quality and a much more modern look and feel. Thanks to the veev team for having us! pic.twitter.com\/vtF5oS7Pli&#8212; Jonathan (@JonathanLawless) January 30, 2020Haller shared that he went into real estate just as the housing bubble burst in 2008, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the housing market continues to boom and the prices for wood products used in making new houses are at record highs, some are starting to build their homes with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,76,44,49],"class_list":["post-190777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-housing","tag-industry","tag-real-estate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}