LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO)— A new home on East 34th Street went from empty lot to almost move-in ready in a single day Monday, part of a new affordable housing initiative in the city of Lorain.
The house was built using modular construction: four separate sections built off-site and assembled elsewhere before crews trucked them in and pieced them together on the lot. The project is the first of its kind in Lorain and is put together by Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and multiple other community partnerships, including the City of Lorain, the Lorain County Land Bank, Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and Praxia Partners.
“We just saw this whole house go up in less than an hour,” said John Litten, president and CEO of Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity…