San Diegans are signing up to build accessory dwelling units, or granny flats, in numbers that haven’t been seen in years. According to the city’s development services department people, more than 200 people went through the permitting process in 2018. “It fits for us...
How new construction techniques can bring the mortgages and rents down Imagine you are building a house. Carpenters will craft forms for concrete finishers to fill and then throw up skeletal walls for electricians to wire and plumbers to pipe. Drywall installers and...
Now that we’re seeing how natural disasters are becoming more and more common—from wildfires to floods and hurricanes—we’ve started to wonder, how can prefab and tiny homes play a part in rebuilding efforts? Where do affected communities go from there? Despite...
As suburban rents and home prices continue to increase, many people find themselves being squeezed financially. One key factor is that both average monthly rents and home prices have boomed, but wage growth hasn’t kept pace. The suburbs have become a target of...
Manufactured housing is 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built housing, yet the number of manufactured homes shipped each year has decreased from averaging 242,000 a year between 1977 and 1993 to just 92,500 units in 2017. Restrictive or unavailable...
Developers are taking on residential building challenges by extending the concept of prefabricated housing to manufacture entire apartment buildings. California is in the middle of an affordable-housing crisis that cities across the state are struggling to solve. Rick...
