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The modular revolution promises to shake up Bay Area housing
Blanca Torres | SF Business Times
Inside a cavernous industrial building where the U.S. Navy built hundreds of ships for overseas combat, longtime Bay Area housing developer Rick Holliday is battling a crisis closer to home: the Bay Area’s dire need for more housing. In March, Holliday’s Factory…
Housing Goes Modular
Robert Gammon | Oakland Magazine
As Rick Holliday strolled through his massive warehouse on Mare Island, he recalled the moment when he realized he had to change his business. The Oakland-based developer has spent much of his career building workforce and affordable housing for middle-…
SF set to start process for building modular housing for formerly homeless
J.K. Dineen | SF Chronicle
SF set to start process for building modular housing for formerly homeless By J.K. Dineen January 22, 2018 Doubling down on its commitment to using off-site construction methods to create faster and less-expensive housing for the formerly homeless, city officials are…
A little hope for a homeless solution: Tiny housing units sprout in the Bay Area
Kevin Fagan | SF Chronicle
Nearly two years after a smattering of tiny homes popped up in the Bay Area as a peculiar new way of housing homeless people, the technique is exploding from one end of the region to the other. Nearly 1,000 tiny…
Celebrated architect David Baker says modular construction will bloom
Roland Li | San Francisco Business Times
David Baker is one of the Bay Area’s most prolific architects, designing 10,000 homes over 35 years. He has worked on dozens of affordable housing and market-rate buildings, boutique hotels in Healdsburg and retail projects. His firm recently designed modular buildings…