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Sneak Peek: Unveiling the Highlights of the 2024 Innovation Housing Showcase
The annual Innovative Housing Showcase will be held this year from June 7 to 9 on the National Mall. It will feature exhibits presenting cutting-edge technologies that promise to transform the landscape of housing construction. The 2024 showcase will highlight technologies such as mass timber and panelized wall systems that promise to improve construction processes and address housing affordability and sustainability issues. This year’s showcase will also focus on how regulatory frameworks influence the adoption of novel construction methods. Other topics featured will include modular and manufactured homes, tiny homes and accessory dwelling units, and rapid shelters. Convenings of experts, policymakers, and practitioners will also be livestreamed to enable virtual attendance.

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Process and Construction Innovations Expand Affordable Multifamily Housing in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, modular construction is helping the city’s public housing agency upgrade and expand its portfolio of affordable family housing, almost all of which consists of single-family and duplex structures scattered throughout the city. The Family Housing Expansion Project consists of 84 new units distributed across 16 sites, gently densifying opportunity-rich neighborhoods in line with the city’s Minneapolis 2040 plan, which calls for the broad curtailment of single-family zoning. The project is notable for the efficiencies gained by modular construction and for the city’s innovative RFP process.