Casitas de Esperanza is a 50-unit development in the parking lot of San Jose’s old City Hall. Casitas is one of the county’s latest tiny-home projects to house homeless families.
Potential applicants are forwarded to the county, and once approved, families get to live inside a tiny home with onsite mental health and other essential services. Each family stays approximately four months before they find more permanent housing with the county’s help. Read more
“Low income should not be confused with low quality,” Kevin says. “These homes are very well built.” He says he likes working with the families, and enjoys the everchanging work as the houses progress. “It was exciting to see the walls go up, the roofs go on, then the windows and now thefamilies are installing kitchen cabinets and flooring.”
At Factory OS, apartment complexes are constructed room by room. Modular units are moved along on an assembly line: floors, dry wall, windows, then electrical, counters, and so on. When the units are completed, they are trucked to the construction site, and assembled like legos.
Habitat for Humanity selected Stringfield's home as its first 3D-printed project. Initiated between a partnership with Alquist, a 3D-printing construction company, it is the organization’s effort to confront the nation’s affordable housing crisis, which increased due to multiple factors including the heightened costs of materials during the pandemic and a booming demand on the housing market
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