Since 1973 Washington County (Ohio) Career Center’s (WCCC) carpentry program has built 46 modular homes, giving students the best real world experience, and since 2002 has built them to auction off to recoup expenses and help sustain the program for the following year. However, this year the three-bedroom, three-bath home, made according to a similar pattern as in the past, did not draw interested bidders. Last year the home sold for $60,000, according to columbusceo.com; but with the starting bid this year at $52,000, which covers expenses, no one stepped forward. WCCC Superintendent Dennis Blatt is still confident the home will sell. “We’ll get it sold, we’ll just try to market it more and give people equal opportunities to bid again,” Blatt said. “We’re not here to make money, we’re here to educate, so that’s our priority.” MHProNews has learned 20 juniors built the house, and seniors in the program did the cabinetry because that requires more detail and accuracy. ##

(Photo credit: Steven Lane/thecolumbian.com–Habitat for Humanity modular home built by high school students in Clark County, WA)