Springfield to receive new Container Style Homes

[mtraininjax]

Now this is going to be sweet!

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547813

Council members back affordable housing pilot project

Thursday, June 23, 11:13 AM EDT
By Max Marbut, Staff Writer

One manufacturer of pre-engineered buildings that wants to expand into the Southeast market plus one Southeast city that has a need for the company's product equals an opportunity for Jacksonville possibly to have a new type of affordable housing.

[fieldafm]

Prefab housing does not consist of stringing together shipping containers, and the area of town that these are being slated to be built isn't in Springfield (if approved, they will be built in the Eastside neighborhood).

[strider]

Hmm, wouldn't it be even better to build the prefab homes here in Jacksonville rather than some other city? We have the space, we have the capability and the area is a enterprise zone offering multiple work credits to an employer.

[acme54321]

Where did you get shipping containers out of that article?

[thelakelander]

^The title. It caught me too, until I clicked on the link. Back in the 1990s/2000s, Homes of Merit and Fleetwood had plants in the town I grew up in, pushing these things out. They called them manufactured homes back then. They all closed when the housing market dived a few years back. It would be cool to have a production facility instead of a few isolated houses.

[MusicMan]

Build the components in one of the huge warehouses in Springfield. Or the old Ford Plant.

[acme54321]

^The title. It caught me too, until I clicked on the link. Back in the 1990s/2000s, Homes of Merit and Fleetwood had plants in the town I grew up in, pushing these things out. They called them manufactured homes back then. They all closed when the housing market dived a few years back. It would be cool to have a production facility instead of a few isolated houses.

I must be blind, I don't see it.

[thelakelander]

These homes appear to be prefab or modular. Nothing about them suggests that they are container style, as the title claims.

[acme54321]

These homes appear to be prefab or modular. Nothing about them suggests that they are container style, as the title claims.

Oh yeah, the title of the thread.  I thought you were referring to the title of the article.

[strider]

So maybe after the DOJ gets done with COJ over the Ability Housing issue, the money having to go to housing the homeless can also help start up the company that builds the modular homes here and put them on lots in Springfield and surrounding areas.  There is a cool building available that would work just across the tracks off of Evergreen. Though perhaps the old mattress factory in Springfield could work if the houses were small enough.

[mtraininjax]

These homes appear to be prefab or modular. Nothing about them suggests that they are container style, as the title claims.

What? False Advertising, here on MJ? Say it ain't so, Joe!