Innovative Housing Showcase Highlights Nation’s First Single-Section CrossMod Home

For one week in September, a small section of the Nations Mall will look more like a suburban neighborhood as lawmakers and home builders highlight attainable housing solutions.

It’s all part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Innovative Housing Showcase: A way to spotlight quality affordable housing in the midst of a shortage. This year’s theme is “The American home is the American dream,”  on expanding opportunities for homeownership across the nation.

American home builders like Clayton took the opportunity to show off their newest products, including the nation’s first single-section, crossover modern “Cross Mod” manufactured home. The building was built entirely off-site in a climate-controlled environment and dropped just away from the Washington Monument.

Clayton’s Business Development Manager, Andrew Bryant, said the build is just one way they are focused on making homeownership a reality for more Americans. “With the housing shortage, the constraint on supply,  and just the demand out there,” Bryant explained, we need to build more attainable homes at a much faster pace, and that starts  to chip away at the housing supply we’re seeing.”

The homes would cost an average of $200,000, including the cost of land, and could be placed in rural, urban, or suburban markets.

Bryant said around eight single-section CrossMods can be built every 60 days, which is less than a third of the development time of a traditional single-family home.

Source: MHI