Every person deserves a place to call home. That conviction is why CoPrint Housing exists.
Across the country, affordable housing has become something the market struggles to build. Material and labor costs have climbed in recent years, timelines stretch, and the homes meant to serve the families who need them most are too often the homes that never get built. The Detroit region feels this acutely — Metro Detroit alone is short roughly 20,000 affordable homes. The shortage isn’t for lack of need or good intentions. It’s that building affordable housing the traditional way has stopped making economic sense.
The breakthrough wasn’t simply to print houses — others were already experimenting with that. It was to design homes to be printed from the very first sketch: floor plans built around the machine, structures optimized for a robotic-arm printer a small crew can run, concrete walls that need no drywall, siding, or insulation. Approached this way, a home can be framed in days rather than weeks, at roughly half the cost per square foot. Affordable housing stops being a charitable exception and becomes something genuinely worth building.
That’s the company we set out to build: a design-build contractor that makes affordable housing faster, cheaper, and better — and in doing so, makes more of it possible. Our mission is simple, even if the work is not: ensure every person has a place to call home. We envision a future in which adequate housing is treated as what it is — a basic human right — for every family, everywhere.
Today, that future starts in Detroit. Our first project, Woodbridge Townhomes, is a four-unit development near Wayne State University that will house students and stand as the proof of concept for 3D-printed construction in the Midwest. It’s the first of many — and the beginning of a story we’re still writing.
CoPrint Housing. Printing a better future.
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