after other disasters and recent fires such as in Lahaina, Maui.<\/a><\/p>\n A 3D-printed ADU by Gardena-based modular homebuilder Azure. <\/p>\n
A prefab housing showcase has been installed on Lincoln Avenue in Altadena over the past month. <\/p>\n
Option to stay on property<\/p>\n
Tameka Alexander and her daughter still are staying in a hotel \u2014 their home was spared by the Eaton Fire, but severe smoke damage has made it unsafe to move back in. She says they\u2019re currently waiting for their home\u2019s insulation to be replaced. That\u2019s why she was at the showcase on a recent Saturday \u2014 to see if a prefabricated home may help them return to their property sooner, while their house gets remediated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been nine months, and I just don’t know how much longer it’ll be, but I would prefer to actually be in something that would allow me to be on the property,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Various prefab housing designs at the Altadena Prefab Showcase. <\/p>\n
Casty Fortich also was at the showcase one recent Saturday with his wife. They and their two teenaged daughters, plus their dog and cat, have been living in a small apartment in Monrovia since losing their Altadena home of more than 20 years in the Eaton Fire. The rent was affordable for them for up to three years \u2014 the time Fortich estimated it could take to rebuild.<\/p>\n
But the apartment is cramped \u2014 and with their rebuild still years in the making (Fortich hopes it can be complete by summer 2027), the family is considering purchasing a prefab unit to live in while they rebuild, and then they can rent it out as an ADU. Even with insurance, they estimate they have about a $300,000 to $500,000 gap to rebuild.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of us are unable to pay for a replacement, and so I think this is an option for many to stay on their property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a prefab ‘village’ in Altadena, but time is running out to visit Factory-built housing can be cheaper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43579,5759,4300,1011,48,52,51,47,50,49,43580,43581,4402],"class_list":{"0":"post-74905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-adu","9":"tag-altadena","10":"tag-eaton-fire","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-modular","19":"tag-prefab","20":"tag-rebuild"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}