Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner told Breitbart News on Wednesday that high-tech construction methods, if permitted by local regulations, could lower housing costs nationwide.

Turner spoke alongside Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) of the Senate Banking Committee at HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase on the National Mall, where entrepreneurs and innovators exhibited their models.

One house, two stories high, was assembled in ten hours by eight people using prefabricated panels. Another house, manufactured by the Azure company in California, used robots and 3-D printing from recycled plastic to lower costs per square foot by…

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