{"id":366460,"date":"2026-10-07T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366460\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:54:08","slug":"new-york-and-new-jersey-housing-innovations-spotlighted-at-huds-innovative-housing-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366460\/","title":{"rendered":"New York and New Jersey Housing Innovations Spotlighted at HUD\u2019s Innovative Housing Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Region II Administrator Jason Loughran and Senior Advisor Barbara Gruson Visit Assembly OSM’s Modular Structure Models<\/p>\n

NEW YORK\u202f- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spotlighted multiple housing innovations and resources from New York and New Jersey during the sixth annual Innovative Housing Showcase, held September 22-24 on the National Mall. This year\u2019s theme, \u201cMade in America,\u201d highlighted American ingenuity and innovative approaches to expanding housing affordability and homeownership.<\/p>\n

\u201cHUD spotlighted several local companies at its Innovative Housing Showcase that are building new housing to expand homeownership opportunities for Americans,\u201d said Region II Administrator Jason Loughran. \u201cThese affordable options show how our region can help meet the housing needs in New York and New Jersey and across our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

HUD\u2019s \u201cMade in America\u201d Showcase spotlighted American builders, manufacturers, and innovators\u2019 modern technologies and creative housing solutions that are expanding housing supply, lowering construction costs, and putting affordable homeownership back in reach for hardworking Americans. The Showcase featured a variety of full-scale housing models including manufactured, 3D printed, and modular homes built by American companies from across the nation.<\/p>\n

Examples from New York and New Jersey<\/p>\n

A national map of American universities with offsite construction education programs, drawn from the Accrediting Body for Offsite Construction Education\u2019s<\/a> (ABOCE, New York) national census.<\/p>\n

A scale model and graphical materials of two modular structures from Assembly OSM<\/a> (New York), built on the company\u2019s platform of predesigned, engineered building elements that assemble quickly and cost-effectively.<\/p>\n

A tabletop exhibit introducing \u201c.CTO \u2013 The File That Knows What Your House Is Made Of\u201d from the Center for Offsite Construction at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design <\/a>(CFOC at NYIT, New York). The .CTO file describes an entire purchasable unit in one file.<\/p>\n

A model print of a wall section built by automated formwork and robotics from Verustruct <\/a>(New Jersey).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Grande Arbor,\u201d a two-bedroom manufactured home from Cavco Homes<\/a> and UMH Properties<\/a> (New Jersey). This home is the first manufactured house built to the HUD code without a permanent steel chassis.<\/p>\n

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