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Manufacturers, experts endorse off‑site construction accelerator and propose credit facility in testimony
Summary
Industry and housing experts testified in favor of H.775’s off‑site construction accelerator and related financing tools, urging pilots for bulk purchase, preapproved designs and a revolving credit facility; experts warned production and site logistics must be addressed for cost savings to materialize.
Testimony to the House General and Housing committee on Feb. 4 focused on H.775, a bill that would create an off‑site construction accelerator and related financing tools to support manufactured, modular and panelized housing production.
Jason Webster, co‑owner of Huntington Homes (a Vermont volumetric modular manufacturer), told the committee that standardization and bulk purchasing can lower costs but cautioned that market actors rarely align to place identical orders. "If I knew that, we would run faster," Webster said, explaining…
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