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'Think of these as Lego blocks': Quick-to-build modular homes are being pitched as a potential fix for the housing shortage. Could you live in one?

As home prices and mortgage rates remain elevated amid a nationwide housing shortage, homeownership continues to be out of reach for many Americans. But there’s hope the crisis may be an opportunity ...
Building Design + Construction

R+D concept Hexagon House: 3D-printed modular multifamily housing

By exploring multi-story, off-site 3D-printed modules, Hexagon House aims to transform multifamily development, offering ...
Curbed

What Would It Take to Build This ‘Lost’ Eames House?

With a swooping arched roof like an airplane hangar, exposed wood beams, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, and an open plan, the Kwikset House represented Charles and Ray Eames’s philosophy for affordable ...
TechCrunch

Prefabs sprout: How Modulous helps housing developers build modular homes without factories

Modulous, a U.K. startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis, has raised £10 ...
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Putting a modular home in your garden; How much you could earn and the one big catch

New Government plans will allow homeowners to build modular homes in their back gardens without planning permission and rent them out for up to €14,000 a year tax-free. Cabinet approved the exemption ...
The Real Deal

First market-rate modular home available in Chicago’s South Shore

Factory-made modular homes are coming to Chicago. Developer Summer Qwest Holdings completed one modular home in South Shore with plans to build at least two more, Crain’s reported. “It’s faster to ...
MLive

Kalamazoo County pilots ‘trailblazing’ plan to build modular homes

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Kalamazoo County officials are working on a plan to build 10 new modular homes and select families to live in them. The pilot program is a unique new way to quickly add needed ...