Move over electric cars: Musk now wants to make bricks for low cost housing

Move over, candy and flamethrowers. Elon Musk tweeted out plans Monday for yet another side venture: alleviating the nation's housing crisis.

"The Boring Company will be using dirt from tunnel digging to create bricks for low-cost housing," he wrote in a tweet about his nascent tunnelling enterprise.

Company spokesman Sam Teller confirmed the plans, saying the bricks will come from the "excavated muck." "There will be an insane amount of bricks," Teller wrote in an email.

How many affordable housing units that will create, though, is a different matter, says Juan Matute, a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and associate