Building a home is often cheaper than buying an existing one, especially with today’s high home prices. Homes with prefabricated, factory-built features are less expensive to build than traditional ...

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Modular building, if brought to scale, has the potential to reduce construction costs and make building new homes more affordable, especially in areas experiencing severe affordable housing shortages.

Billionaire co-founder of Airbnb Joe Gebbia has unveiled a plan to donate $15 million worth of prefabricated homes manufactured by his new company to Los Angeles–area homeowners who have been ...

Stetson Jore, Garrett Roberson and Isabella Schenone add a layer of sheathing to a wall at the Habitat for Humanity of Flathead Valley's new pre-production facility inside their Restore building on ...

When you hear the term modular homes, you probably think of something akin to mobile homes on cinder blocks—temporary solutions for would-be homeowners that are far from the dream homes they hope to ...

Lad Dawson, the now-retired founder of Guerdon, says the process is faster, cheaper and better than site-built construction. Like any assembly line, he explains, everything is done on ground level and ...

The Silver Lake structure is SuperLA’s first example of a repeatable model the company says can build homes faster and cheaper than industry standard. Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of ...

The bottom-line is that California has a housing shortage. An all-of-the-above approach to bringing supply is key, which ...

The city launched a Request for Information on Wednesday to start the process of opening factories to build modular housing.