California weighs new factory-built housing rules to ease construction, cost burden

Part of an apartment in a modular apartment complex is hoisted into place in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. The building’s prefabricated units will be installed with a crane over three days, creating 13 units of affordable housing for low-income families and transition-age youth. (Photo by David Crane...