TheDailyStar tells MHProNews a modular project is under way in Sidney, New York, northeast of Binghamton, to provide housing for persons with developmental disabilities. Bought last year by the state Dormitory Authority for the Broome Developmental Disabilities Service Office, one of the six lots already has a modular home outfitted …
SmartPlanet informs MHProNews from Buenos Aires, Argentina prefabricated housing has meant low cost housing for years in Latin America. Additionally, labor is very low cost, so stacking bricks to make a home is relatively inexpensive. Sebastian Koltan has developed a galvanized steel-framed modular house with distinctive sustainability features: polyurethane foam-filled …
Marianas Variety reports from Micronesia in the South Pacific the first green-designed modular homes are becoming commercially available as affordable housing on the island. Nanum Consulting Corp. is partnering with Guam HNC Inc. and Guam Nexus C&D to build steel-framed affordable one and two-bedroom homes for $50,000. The homes have …
The billingsgazette reports because housing is so scarce and wages are so great in the Bakken Oilfield in western North Dakota, the running joke is the oilfield holds the record for homeless people with $100,000 incomes. A housing summit last spring determined the need for 5,000 housing units for the …
Modular builder Red Sea Housing Services in Jubail, Saudi Arabia reports profits for the first nine months of 2012 rose 32 percent over the same period 2011, according to ConstructionWeekOnline. Year-over-year profits for the three months since June nearly doubled compared to last year. The company said the net income …
We covered a story Oct. 4, 2012 concerning the federal court-ordered closing of Duroville MHC in Mecca, Calif. due to poor housing conditions, and the fate of those living there. MyDesert reports 41 of the manufactured homes of the 180 homesite Mountain View Estates in nearby Oasis, Calif. had been …
A Novato, Calif. non-profit that operates Marin’s three homeless shelters will partner with modular builder Blu Homes to site 14 one and two-bedroom compact homes to be rented to low-income, formerly homeless families with children. According to marinij, Marin-based Homeward Bound, which also operates transitional housing, has raised one third …
OregonLive tells MHProNews the first modular multifamily affordable apartment project in the Northwest was sited in Portland, Oregon Thurs. Oct 11. Built in Aumsville, OR, Kah San Chako Haws–”East House” in Chinook— took 13 months to design and construct and cost $1.7 million, about $190,000 each unit. Architect Stuart Emmons …
Fastcodesign reports the new Starbucks in Denver looks more like something from the TV show Bonanza. Made of old Wyoming snow fencing, the modular unit is a drive-thru and walk-up only with no indoor seating, no internet connection, 500 square feet in size, LEED Certified and just large enough for …
According to dl-online in west central Minnesota, Homark Homes of New York Mills, MN is building two modular bunkhouses for a gold mine in Musselwhite, Ontario, Canada. Each building will measure 28 feet by 282 feet and will house 76 mining workers in two-man units. While their focus remains on …
Augusta, Georgia’s WBJF-TV tells MHProNews Augusta businessman Donnie Thompson and a New York City developer are proposing dozens of modular homes on a six acre tract that Thompson recently bought from the city for $300,000. Mayor Deke Copenhaver says, “We need to bring more residents into downtown Augusta. Our loft …
The MinotDailyNews reports from Minot, North Dakota manufactured homes are being welcomed in many older neighborhoods following the Souris River flooding in June of 2011 that took out some 4,100 homes. Many of the houses lost were older, smaller homes that can be replaced quickly and affordably with manufactured houses. …
WishawPress reports from northern Scotland in Great Britain, the Motherwell police station has officially opened 12 modular cells to help with the management of prisoners. Strathclyde Chief Constable Stephen House, newly-appointed head of the Police Service of Scotland, says “Modular cell buildings are a new approach to prisoner and staff …
Neweraprogress reports Amherst County High School students will build a Habitat for Humanity modular house at the school in Amherst, Virginia and site it in Madison Heights, just outside Lynchburg. Funded by grants, the more experienced students will instruct the newer ones in producing the two modules under the watchful …
WVPubCast tells MHProNews two new modular homes now dot Route 52 just outside Welch, West Virginia in the southwestern corner of the state. Penni Padgett, Housing Director of the Council of the Southern Mountains, notes it is a milestone. “It is a small start but it is a start,” she …
EarthTechling informs us the Solar Decathalon Europe competition was won by a French team’s modular, stackable solar home that produces enough energy to earn the net zero ranking—-and charge the family’s electric car. Utilizing a nano tower design, the Canopea can be stacked vertically for high density sustainable housing, and …
A Czech designed energy-efficient modular home, the Freedomky, features a heat recovery ventilator and air-to-air heat pump as well as photovoltaics and solar thermal hot water. As OregonLive tells MHProNews, this “tiny house movement” home is available in 248 and 409 square feet, and can be assembled in five hours. …
BizJournals reports from Seattle, Washington nonprofit developer Common Ground is considering several options to increase affordable housing in the state, according to a study the organization released. It costs $200,000 to develop a new rental housing unit in Washington, twice the national average, and the state is restrictive about what …
The history of the modular Deck House will be the focus of a symposium in Lincoln, Mass. Oct 10, according to WickedLocal. Founded by Bob Brownell in 1959, the exposed post and beam construction homes feature free flow interiors of upscale materials such as mahogany wood and slate, much different …
PRWeb reports GDH Housing, LLC in Covington, Louisiana will construct, deliver, and assemble a modular 77 room hotel, comprised of 48 modules, to Williston, North Dakota to ease the rapidly growing need for quality accommodations in support of the oil exploration effort. Through an agreement with modular home builder Ritz-Craft …
