2016
"SF NEEDS MICRO-PAD HOUSING"
Small Units Essential for Solving Homelessness
If you want to see how San Francisco can best reduce homelessness, go to 9th and Mission and tour the SF Micro-PAD. The brainchild of developer Patrick Kennedy, the Micro-Pad’s 160 square foot units could soon bring 1000 housing units to the city, with a third for the very poor.
...More"Go Inside the MicroPAD, a New Solution for San Francisco’s Homeless"
Several months ago, local developer Panoramic Interests introduced a creative solution to address San Francisco’s homelessness crisis. Their proposed MicroPAD is a very small housing unit that can be built quickly, affordably and at a scale that could make a real impact. For two weeks starting October 31, the public will have the opportunity to walk inside one of these homes and experience it themselves.
...More"Inside a tiny prefab home for the homeless"
A possible solution for San Francisco citizens without a place to call home
It’s a tiny moment of truth for developer Patrick Kennedy’s MicroPADs.
He touts his petite prefab apartments as an affordable solution to San Francisco’s homeless problem. But that only flies if the pads can impress both the city and public as a place where anyone might theoretically want to live.
...More"A Clash of Interests"
From Page 24
Construction unions used to be reliable supporters of development. Not anymore
Construction unions have traditionally been adbocates for new development, for an obvious reason: It keeps their members employed. That delicate alliance is now coming under threat.
...More"Think Small"
Nov 2016–Digital Version, pg. 94 http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/digital-edition
Patrick Kennedy offers to give me a house. And I accept. He leads me to a far corner of his office suite on the ground floor of the shiny tower on Ninth and Mission that he completed in 2015 and that now serves largely as a high-rise student housing. And there sitting on a shelf is my house.
...More"Come tour the tiny modular apartments that may house the homeless"
Back in August we told you about developer Patrick Kennedy’s plan to build 200 tiny new homes in a DPW-owned parking lot in a matter of months.
Kennedy’s invention, the MicroPAD, is a modular studio apartment roughly the standard shipping container (with a bit more ceiling) that “snaps” together Lego-style with others to create a building supposedly in no time at all.
...More"Vancouver looks at modular housing industry to boost slim rental stock"
City of Vancouver staff are considering fast-tracking permits for standardized, modular laneway homes as a way to help boost the city’s rental stock.
Such a move could speed up the development of backyard homes on the estimated 60,000 lots that can accommodate them in neighbourhoods across the city. While the entire city is zoned for laneway housing, just over 2,400 permits to build them have been issued.
...More"No Vacancies in California? Housing Report Begs to Differ"
California will have to build about 3.5 million homes over the next eight years, more than triple its current pace of construction, simply to keep up with expected population growth and hold down housing costs to affordable levels. But how could the state actually do it?
...More"View Vancouver’s modular housing prototype at Robson Square this week"
A temporary pavilion built on the roadway at Robson Square, where Robson Redux installations were previously located, showcases a prototype of the City of Vancouver’s first temporary modular housing project.
...More"Go Inside the MicroPAD, a New Solution for San Francisco’s Homeless"
Several months ago, local developer Panoramic Interests introduced a creative solution to address San Francisco’s homelessness crisis. Their proposed MicroPAD is a very small housing unit that can be built quickly, affordably and at a scale that could make a real impact. For two weeks starting October 31, the public will have the opportunity to walk inside one of these homes and experience it themselves.
What is the MicroPAD?
It stands for Prefabricated Affordable Dwelling.