Affordability has become a major theme of 2025 and of all the areas where technology has sped up processes and brought down costs, housing has been a stubborn exception.

One company that is trying to bring a new technology-based approach to this is BOXABL, and it has partnered with a SPAC to accelerate that vision. This week, we speak with Galiano Taramani, founder and co-CEO of BOXABL and Larry Swets Jr., CEO of FG Merger Corp. II (NASDAQ:FGMC). The two announced a $3.5 billion combination in August.

Galiano explains how BOXABL has found an edge in how it ships its modular homes and how it hopes to eventually manufacture them at a rate of one house per minute. Larry explains how BOXABL’s unique crowdfunding path gives FG Merger II confidence in the company’s journey after listing and how adding financial services angles to its platform could potentially take it to the next level.