Many are made in BC. Are they a real housing solution?

Thirteen percent of US prefabricated homeowners listen to classical music while only eight percent attend monster truck shows. More than half of them find their living conditions very satisfactory thank you very much. More than half plan on living in their prefabs forever and very few of them will actually move their mobile homes.

This type of dwelling long associated with shifty rednecks has become a very hot trend among the economically mobile.

And a lot of the homes they find prefabulous are built here in BC.

Architects all over North America are dabbling in prefabricated housing, designing and manufacturing innovative dwellings out of the standard 16 x 45 foot box, a measurement designed for road capacity.

A mind-boggling array of stylish modernist prefabs are now available, including designs delivered complete to the site via trailer or tugboat, flat-packed house kits and even collapsible studios that can be moved via SUV and portable penthouses built to be flown from city rooftop to the country via helicopter.

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http://thetyee.ca/News/2005/05/31/PrefabHome/