Leaders in San Diego are promoting a new way to help solve the local housing crisis: apartment complexes fully constructed inside factories and then transported to a city neighborhood for quick installation.
Such apartments can rent for less than units in new apartment complexes constructed traditionally at a site. That’s because they can be built more quickly and cheaply on factory assembly lines.
Called factory-built housing by city officials, the units are a version of affordable housing that don’t require a government subsidy…