The pre-fab skyscraper? Bay Area housing crisis brings new era for modular homes

Inside a nondescript warehouse in a nondescript industrial park, workers for RAD Urban are assembling the building blocks of a modern apartment building.

Piece by piece, along a factory line, workers erect walls, string electrical wires, fasten plumbing, hang drywall and paint until a bare 12-foot by 30-foot steel chassis looks almost like a move-in ready apartment.

Louis Hansen

The pre-fab skyscraper? Bay Area housing crisis brings new era for modular homes