The Space-Age Bid to Reshape US Housing With Factory-Built Homes
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Faced with a dearth of housing production in the 1960s and ’70s, the US embarked on what is now considered the country’s most ambitious federal housing program in history. It wasn’t led by developers or builders or even architects; it was helmed by a rocket scientist — with expertise in nuclear reactor propulsion.