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Rome may not have been built in a day, but Kim Dralamo's house was.

Well, I actually saw the house get dropped, so it came in four different pieces, two boxes

for the downstairs, two for the upstairs, and it only took them a few hours to put it together.

Wild, right? I mean, housing like Kim's could change how we build in America.

And a lot of semials, senior economics correspondent at Time Magazine is back with us to talk about

it. What's up, Alana?

Hey, Adrian. I visited Kim in Wapenjur's Falls, New York, where her house sits at the

end of a cul-de-sac.

Front, door, open.

Were you breaking into Kim's house? What is going on there?

It has top of the lens security, Adrian.

Apparently.

So it was built in pieces in a factory, and then it was assembled on her land, which makes

it a modular home, also known as a prefab home.

Like prefabricated.

Prefabricated, exactly.

Oh, okay. So I don't think I've ever been in one of these. Like, what is it like in there?

It actually looks a lot like all the other single family homes on our street. There's vinyl

siding. It's two stories. There's some big windows. There's a porch.

Oh, the porch is my best friend. I got two rocking chairs up there, and it's just nice

to be able to rock there and read a book and stuff. But the thing that's different about

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