I think when we really look at where the housing crisis started, it wasn't that long ago when houses were actually affordable. It was in the last probably six to eight years that housing prices really started to climb. That is also when the supply of housing started to drop. When we look at the R and D, or the research and development, phase of the new technologies of products like Condo Core with Gaetan beside me and Lodestar and many others, there's a design phase that has to take place.
I know I've been doing this for about six years straight on the development of Lodestar. Then when you get it finally to where it's ready for market and you have that big long stretch of time where you have to go through the planning processes and permitting processes and all of that, you're now talking six, seven years, which is about where we're at right now. Affordability is going to happen naturally when we manufacture these buildings in a manufacturing-type setting.
Again, just like the implementation of building cars in a factory, with building homes in a factory you're going to start to see a lot of efficiencies and you're going to see a lot of challenges overcome by design and by professionals. I think the affordability aspect is going to be looked after as these things progress and as we get pumping these things out of the factories. If we continue to focus our efforts on just that, on doing it smarter and faster, I think that it should solve the issue.
I hope that answers your question.