{"id":33347,"date":"2025-07-02T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33347\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:18:11","slug":"cook-county-to-open-first-modular-homes-in-multimillion-dollar-affordable-housing-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33347\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County To Open First Modular Homes In Multimillion-Dollar Affordable Housing Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle<\/a>\u00a0cut the ribbon on the first two of 120 planned modular-built houses Wednesday morning, part of a sweeping $12M affordable housing pilot program.<\/p>\n

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\n Toni Preckwinkle\n <\/p>\n

The program is designed to\u00a0add affordable housing across Cook County in Humboldt Park<\/a>, Chicago Heights and Proviso Township. The Cook County Board of Commissioners<\/a> approved the plan just over a year ago, allocating funding for what works out to $100K per unit.<\/p>\n

The first two\u00a0finished homes are on Homan Avenue in Humboldt Park,\u00a0each built in\u00a0a factory 3.5 miles away in North Lawndale<\/a>,\u00a0Crain’s Chicago Business reported<\/a>. Preckwinkle\u00a0was set to attend the ribbon-cutting alongside other county officials, the Cook County Land Bank and\u00a0Tim Swanson<\/a>, whose firm, Inherent L3C, built the three-bedroom houses.<\/p>\n

A dozen\u00a0total modular homes<\/a>, comprised of a first and second floor delivered in two pieces, are slated to go up in Humboldt Park.\u00a0Work will start on homes in Chicago Heights\u00a0and Proviso Township in late fall, Crain’s reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we’re going to meet the housing crisis in this country, we’re going to have to invest a lot more in modular housing,\u201d Preckwinkle told Crain’s. \u201cIt takes less time than stick-built, and they’re built in a controlled environment where there’s no rain or snow that takes extra time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the new construction will help cover\u00a0merely a fraction of the\u00a0projected housing shortfall<\/a>\u00a0facing Illinois\u00a0over the next five years.<\/p>\n

The state<\/a> has\u00a0a current\u00a0deficit\u00a0of 142,000 units, according to a joint report from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute<\/a> and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign last week.\u00a0It\u00a0will need to build about 230,000 more between now and 2030 to stabilize the market and address a growing housing affordability crisis, they said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the modular housing\u00a0industry\u00a0has long battled a negative perception from some that its\u00a0products are of lower quality<\/a>\u00a0than traditionally constructed homes. But natural disasters have\u00a0presented new opportunities<\/a>\u00a0for those developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle\u00a0cut the ribbon on the first two of 120 planned modular-built houses Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,27823,27822,27821],"class_list":{"0":"post-33347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-inherent-l3c","12":"tag-tim-swanson","13":"tag-toni-preckwinkle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114785255901862679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}