PETALUMA, CA - MARCH 27: Workers paint the exterior of a new home at a housing development on March 27, 2017 in Petaluma, California. According to a study by real estate consultant the Rosen Consulting Group, home ownership in the United States has dipped to a 50-year low with housing spending declining to 15.6% of GDP in 2016. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
The future of US homebuilding depends on more people like Cyndicy Yarborough, a 26-year-old former Wal-Mart clerk with no background in construction.
At Blueprint Robotics in Baltimore, she works in a factory that builds houses like cars, on an assembly line, using robots that fire thousands of nails into studs each day and never miss. Yarborough operates a machine that lifts floors and walls and packs them onto a flatbed truck, the final step before delivery to a development site where they’ll be pieced together.
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