Whether you're looking for your first home to plant your roots in or a second home to escape everyday reality, Amazon has a new tiny house that looks like a cozy cabin and is sure to become your oasis. For less than $29,000, you can buy your dream home, opening the door to a life filled with new, endless possibilities.
The company filed a WARN notice with California officials on Feb. 12, citing "lack of new business and loss of capital funding" as reasons for potential layoffs. The document is just a warning - by law, businesses have to tell workers well in advance if they could be hit by a mass job cut - but it's a dire sign for the company. Harbinger's CEO, management team and more than 200 production workers are listed for the possible layoff.
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Mesocore Modular Homes is introducing an expandable modular housing model aimed at improving affordability and disaster relief, an important issue in a state prone to devastating hurricanes. Positioned as an affordable housing solution for both homebuyers and city leaders, planners, emergency management professionals, and resilience experts focused on addressing climate-driven risks, Mesocore's expandable home can start as a 420-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath home with a private bedroom, a full kitchen, a living area, and a built-in desk.
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Built to meet local and international building codes, they're very different from the cheap, toxic trailers that FEMA deployed 20 years ago, when Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Some of those trailers had formaldehyde levels that were 75 times greater than safe levels. They were poorly insulated and never meant for long-term housing, but some families were stuck in them for years.
This year's exhibits will include entire model homes ranging from manufactured and modular to 3D-printed designs developed by companies from across the U.S. Guardian Structural Technologies (GST) a Cleveland-based innovator in energy-efficient housing is showcasting its award-winning SHIELD Panel system. GST's galvanized steel and EPS foam panels speed construction while boosting energy efficiency, with more than 1,400 buildings completed nationwide. A finalist in Cleveland's initiative to deliver 5,000 affordable homes, GST is piloting modular housing with Habitat for Humanity.
The owner of a boarded-up hotel in Palo Alto that was converted to an illegal dorm for Stanford students has applied to put 22 modular homes on the property. Attorney Brian O'Neill filed the application on Aug. 27 on owner Sophia Huang's behalf. He invoked state housing laws that give the project an easier path to approval. "Despite prior challenges, the applicant has continued to engage in good-faith discussions with city personnel in recent years in an effort to develop a plan responsive to the city's goals and housing obligations," O'Neill said in a letter to Planning Director Jonathan Lait.
