Canadian Project Requires Extensive Modular Housing
The journalofcommerce reports WEQ Britco is set to begin building a 2,000 room modular workforce accommodation complex in northern Manitoba, Canada at the proposed site of Manitoba Hydro’s...
View ArticleModular Housing to Replace Aging Housing Projects
The RentonReporter tells MHProNews the Renton Housing Authority recently received $2.1 million towards the construction of 18 modular town homes in this city just south of Seattle, Wash. The new...
View ArticleMOD Development Likely to be Denied
As follow-up to a story we posted Jan, 28, 2013 concerning an eleven-unit modular multi-housing project in Ridgefield, Conn., theridgefieldpress informs MHProNews the encroachment on existing wetlands...
View ArticleModular Housing Project Finished Within Two Months
The starphoenix of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada tells MHProNews a modular housing complex for 180 people was completed in just 59 days at Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. 3twenty Solutions of Saskatoon...
View ArticleSuit Seeks to Halt Large Modular Housing Project
Updating a story we last posted Jan 29, 2013 regarding Forest City Ratner’s 32-story modular housing project in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, two trade unions have sued to block the project. The...
View ArticleUnusual Modular Design Influenced Numerous Housing Projects
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie at age 23 designed a modular housing project for the Montreal World Exposition of 1967 comprised of 354 identical concrete modules that became 158 apartments,...
View ArticleSchool District Receives Housing Grant
Updating a story we last posted July 9, 2013 concerning the Midland (TX) Independent School District (MISD) providing manufactured housing for staff members in housing-strapped Midland, a grant from...
View ArticleModular Housing Rising in West Africa
Ghana, in West Africa is beginning a 5,000 modular housing project to provide affordable housing in Sege, in the Dangme East District. Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Sampson...
View ArticleManufactured Housing Project Set for Australia
A one-time theme park in Queensland, Australia will be demolished and replaced with a 115-site manufactured housing community (MHC). Nostalgia Town at Pacific Paradise has been acquired for $1.6...
View ArticleModular Container Housing to House At Risk Women and Families in Vancouver
MHProNews has learned the seven story modular housing complex made from old shipping containers rising in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia is headed up by the non-profit Atira Women’s Resource...
View ArticleComposite Panels Form Affordable Modular Housing
ReinforcedPlastics says MSP Property Management & Development Company, a real estate developer and manager in the Caribbean, has agreed to buy modular homes for a housing project in Antigua from...
View ArticleNew Modular Builder on the Block
The Chronicle tells us another modular player has entered the housing game in the oil boom of North Dakota. Colorado-based Confluence has already set the first of ten units of apartments called...
View ArticleMOD Rising in Bermuda
RoyalGazette reports from Bermuda a 100-unit modular housing project will replace 140 year-old United Kingdom-designed barrack style housing if the Progressive Labour Party has its way. The old units...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Project put on Hold
Following up on a story we posted June 5, 2012, ctbulletin reports the Milford, Connecticut Planning and Zoning board delayed a vote regarding Garden Homes Management proposal for a 36-unit affordable...
View ArticleTCU in Ala. Backs Affordable Housing Project
NationalMortgageNews reports the Tuscaloosa Credit Union (TCU) in Alabama is backing a program to help home buyers with poor credit realize their dreams of home ownership, following the departure of...
View ArticleHUD Backs Modular Housing on Tribal Land
Indiancountrytodaymedianewtwork reports the first large housing project in 40 years on the San Felipe Pueblo tribal land in Sandoval County, New Mexico has just witnessed 28 families move in to the 28...
View ArticleModular Homes from Idaho going to Northern British Columbia
From Canada, TumblerRidgeNews in north east British Columbia tells MHProNews Triland International is building a series of modular duplexes in Tumbler Ridge, the first major new housing project in that...
View ArticleAffordable Housing in Northern Canada
CFTK-TV reports from northernwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada the residents of Telkwa, BC have just dedicated an eight unit modular housing project for seniors and persons with disabilities....
View ArticleFinnish Collaboration to Build Affordable Modular Housing
GlobeNewsWire reports from Finland, Stora Enso and Skanska are collaborating to build a moderately priced modular housing project comprised of 36 BoKlok apartments in seven multi-story buildings....
View ArticleModular Housing Meets Stiff Resistance
RidgefieldPatch reports a proposed affordable modular housing project in Ridgefield, Connecticut has met with stiff opposition from neighbors as well as a planning and zoning commission member. The...
View ArticleChina Backing Major U.S. Housing Project
The World Property Channel reports China is backing the development of 20,500 homes in San Francisco to the tune of $1.7 billion, a development project at two former naval bases that will hire 5,000...
View ArticleModular Development Revised
Following up on a story about the proposed development of an 11 unit modular housing project we posted Nov. 22, 2012 in Ridgefield, Conn., where neighbors criticized the plan over aesthetic and...
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