"Meanwhile housing" - modular homes on temporary sites

[Brendan Burgess]

Interesting idea in the UK

Our Solution — Modomo

We are pioneering the use of meanwhile housing to tackle the housing crisis. Our approach centres around land, homes and communities.

modomo.co

Where a city site might take 15 years to develop, Modomo lease it for 15 years and install factory built apartments on it.

When the 15 years is up, they move the houses on to some other location.

Brendan

 

[JohnJay]

its strange that there are only drawings of their developments, but no actual photos......

 

[Purple]

its strange that there are only drawings of their developments, but no actual photos......

Images and examples here

 

[Purple]

We need to start viewing housing as having a utility value as well as a capital value.
HAPS, this sort of development and rented public housing is kind of viewed as a waste of money because the State doesn't own the asset. That's nonsense.
We view the purchase of private healthcare by the State for the public in the same way. That's also nonsense.

The State is providing an essential service for its citizens. That's a good thing. Whether it is good value for money in the medium term is the question but the answer should be based on data, not ideology.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Hi Purple

The state is not finding it easy to build with modular homes

State ordered 700 modular homes for refugees without enough sites to locate them

Government says it is ‘confident’ enough sites are ‘under review to accommodate’ units this year

www.irishtimes.com

Having said that, they are not finding it easy to build any homes.

Brendan

 

[Marsupial]

Hi Purple

The state is not finding it easy to build with modular homes

State ordered 700 modular homes for refugees without enough sites to locate them

Government says it is ‘confident’ enough sites are ‘under review to accommodate’ units this year

www.irishtimes.com

Having said that, they are not finding it easy to build any homes.

Brendan

It's one of those annoying headlines, isn't it?

If "the State" hadn't ordered enough of those modular houses then the media would criticise them; and when they order more units than they currently have sites for, they get criticised too. I have no idea what the delivery lead time is for these modular homes, but I assume that by the time that they've been delivered, more sites will have been identified.

I know it's a slow news bank holiday weekend, but I really, really, wish that Irish churnalists would grow up a bit and stop trying to sensationalise everything.