If you've looked for a house recently, you might have heard - you can't build them for what you can buy them at the moment.
With construction prices up by as much as 40 percent - combined with land values - there's not much incentive to build your own home.
But in the US state of Texas, the world's biggest 3D printed housing neighbourhood has just opened.
Experts reckon it's something we should be looking at down under.
Associate Professor M Hank Haeusler from Australia's Centre for Next-Generation Architectural Manufacturing speaks to Jesse.
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