2016November
"‘Stackable’ modular apartments to be built for homeless families"
Dublin City Council to place prefabricated units on Fishamble Street and in Coolock.
A vacant site in Dublin city centre, which was to be an owner-designed apartment block, is to be used for the city’s first modular apartment development for homeless families.
...More"Tiny Houses, Huge Hurdles: Panoramic and the Future of Supportive Housing"
Imagine having no place to live in one of the planet’s most expensive metropolitan areas. For many residents of San Francisco, this is a daily reality. Yet while labor and investment capital pours in, the region’s culture of technological “innovation” has failed to improve the livelihoods of our most vulnerable neighbors. Patrick Kennedy wants to change that.
...More"Build More Housing"
From June 22, 2016: San Francisco’s YIMBY movement is pushing the city to build its way out of the housing crisis.
San Francisco is one of the most expensive places to live in the country and has become the symbol of the nation’s housing crisis.
A booming jobs market and years of underdevelopment have led to skyrocketing real estate prices and rents in the region. In 2015, the Bay area added 64,000 jobs but built less than 5,000 housing units. The median home price is nowover the million dollar mark and an average one-bedroom apartment rents for more than $3,500 a month.
...More"The World’s Tallest Modular Building May Teach Cities to Build Cheaper Housing"
AST WEEK, 461 Dean became the world’s tallest modular building. Designed by New York architecture firm SHoP, the Brooklyn residential tower consists of 363 pre-fab apartments that stack like Tetris blocks into a 32-story building.
...More"Sleep Tight in a Smartly Designed Microhotel"
It’s sort of like staying inside a Swiss Army knife: In stylish new microhotels, architects deploy tech and minimalist design to fold a lot of amenities into small spaces. Consider the 150-square-foot rooms at the two Arlo hotels, which opened this fall in Manhattan.
...More"It’s time for action when San Francisco’s homeless numbers aren’t budging"
“…Small and inexpensive modular housing is one option… These ideas are all worth support. But they need to show results more quickly.
The civil disgrace of homelessness can’t be tolerated.”
San Francisco’s latest homeless head count shouldn’t surprise anyone who travels the streets, parks and sidewalks of the city. The number hasn’t budged over the past year, a dismal steady state of human misery.
...More"US homelessness declines: What’s working?"
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
More communities are focusing on providing their chronic homeless populations permanent, supportive residences. Experts say that’s the path to take to in order to put a roof over every citizen’s head.
"Could ‘MicroPADs’ help solve San Francisco’s homeless problem?"
Some are calling it the wave of the future when it comes to housing the homeless. Micropads are tiny pre-fab modules that can be stacked together into apartment buildings.
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) – Some are calling it the wave of the future when it comes to housing the homeless. Micropads are tiny pre-fab modules that can be stacked together into apartment buildings.
...More"SF Planning Commissioners “Impressed” with MicroPAD"
Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. Planning Commissioners Kathryn Moore and Dennis Richards visited the MicroPAD on 9th and Mission Streets and came away “impressed.” At a recent public hearing, both commented on the design and quality of the unit and believe this is a viable approach to house San Francisco’s homeless population.
...More"With Workers Scarce, More Home Builders Turn to Prefab Construction"
A persistent shortage of construction workers across the U.S. is prompting some of the nation’s largest home builders to experiment with a model they once derided: factory production.
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