Milwaukee’s most successful and oldest independent non-profit, Milwaukee Christian Center Neighborhood Improvement Project (MCC-NIP), the developer of 41 houses over the last decade that have been sold to low to moderate income homeowners, is building a modular four-bedroom, three-bath home.

Funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and administered by the Milwaukee Community Development Grants Administration, the program not only provides low-income housing but also helps stabilize the city’s neighborhoods by attracting new homeowners.

According to modularhomecoach, project manager John Kaye has been active in nonprofit housing for 30 years, mostly doing rehabilitation of foreclosures and abandoned buildings, although he says MCC-NIP does rehabs as well as modular and stick-built homes. The latter are mostly done for youth job training by drop-outs who attend school half the day and the other half learning to build a house.

While they are required to put the modular homes up for bid, MHProNews has learned the organization has recently been using Terrace Homes and Stratford Homes, both in northern Wisconsin.

After this modular home, which will sell for $119,900, Kaye does not anticipate any more modular homes until next spring. ##

(Photo credit: modularhomecoach–module being lifted in place)

Article submitted by Matthew J Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.