Courtesy of Connect Homes
- Long Beach, California, made a $2.5 million deal to build tiny homes for people in need.
- The prefabricated-home designer Connect Homes is set to manufacture the modular units.
- The company has built three other shelter campuses around the state since 2020.
When the Harvard Graduate School of Design-trained architect Gordon Stott cofounded the prefabricated-home builder Connect Homes in 2013, he was fulfilling demand for something increasingly hard to find in California: affordable and luxurious single-family homes.
The company was buzzing along as the housing market boomed after it created more than 100 tiny homes in its San Bernardino factory and trucked them to destinations throughout the state, Stott said.