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Assembly committee hears state, agency and research proposals to scale factory‑built housing
Summary
State officials, funders and researchers told a California Assembly select committee that factory‑built housing can accelerate delivery and reduce waste if regulators, financing and demand are aligned; speakers urged code consistency, financing certainty and pilots to aggregate demand.
Assemblymember Wicks convened the California State Assembly Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation to examine how factory‑built housing (FBH) might be scaled to lower housing costs.
Kyle Krause, deputy director at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, told the committee FBH includes “any residential structure, single or multifamily” built in whole or in part off‑site to California building standards and described HCD’s role in third‑party design approval and in‑factory quality assurance. He said HCD certifies design approval agencies (DAAs) and quality assurance agencies (QAAs) that inspect production and that HCD issued roughly 3,200 insignias of approval in 2024 and about 3,400 in 2025…
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