Matthew Rapa, Cloud Apartments' head of construction, and Curtis Wong, its founder, standing in one of their modular-apartment prototypes.

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Curtis Wong, a former SpaceX engineer, says he can cut housing costs by 30% with modular apartments. Cloud Apartments plans to build at five sites in the Bay Area, including in San Jose and Berkeley. A 25-year venture-capital veteran just led a $3 million funding round for Cloud Apartments.

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