"The American Housing Corp., wants to bring them back. "Row homes are an underbuilt category in the United States," says Riley Meik, cofounder and CEO of the American Housing Corp. The company has developed a kit of parts that can be quickly manufactured, shipped to building sites in dense urban neighborhoods, and assembled, helping shrink construction costs. While the price of an American Housing Corp. row houses in"
""The U.S. is actually good at building single family homes on the outskirts of town-you look at the numbers that Lennar or D.R. Horton does, they are building over 150,000 homes a year," Meik says. "But they are never going to build in the cities where people already live and want to live." The challenge of the missing middle Meik, an engineer who previously"
An Austin-based company completed a prototype of a narrow, multistory row house designed for replication in dense urban neighborhoods across the United States. The company produces a kit of parts that can be manufactured offsite, shipped to infill lots, and assembled to reduce construction time and costs. Early Austin units are expected to sell around $750,000. The strategy targets the 'missing middle' — housing types larger than apartments but smaller than single-family homes — to add density where single-family zoning has limited options. Founders cite large-volume suburban builders' focus outside city centers and aim to enable urban construction.
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