High schoolers are building a solution to Boulder's housing crisis

"On the edge of Boulder, Colorado, a remarkable convergence of mutually beneficial collaboration is underway, and it could reshape how housing gets built, who builds it, and who is able to afford it. This is all happening inside BoulderMOD, a new modular housing factory built by the city of Boulder for use by the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and powered by the labor of apprentice modular home builders from area public high schools."

"BoulderMOD is a joint venture between the Boulder Valley School District, Flatirons Habitat for Humanity, and the city of Boulder, and each of the three partners is tallying very tangible returns. The school district gets to offer an advanced trade-based curriculum that prepares its students for careers they can start immediately. Flatirons Habitat for Humanity gets to streamline and multiply its housing production capabilities, and the city gets to chip away at a deeply ingrained housing affordability crisis."

BoulderMOD is a municipal modular housing factory operated in partnership with the Boulder Valley School District and Flatirons Habitat for Humanity. High-school apprentices receive hands-on education in advanced home building by working several hours daily on actual modular units. The factory assembles homes that are being installed in a flood-devastated section of Boulder and could produce up to 50 homes per year at full capacity. The school district gains a career-ready trade curriculum, Habitat increases and streamlines housing production, and the city advances solutions to a severe housing affordability crisis rooted partly in loss of affordable mobile-home communities after the 2013 floods.

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