Vox - Why people thought steel houses were a good idea

It was supposed to be the future of housing. What went wrong? Why aren’t homes made of steel? In the late 1940s, one U.S. company posed that question. Lustron was a prefabricated home that was supposed to be the future of housing. For just a few years — 1947 to 1950 — the Columbus, Ohio-based Lustron represented the future of housing. Using a steel frame and porcelain enamel-covered steel panels, Lustron made homes in a factory and shipped them around the country.