By Noah Festenstein | Denver Gazette
As Colorado struggles with its lack of affordable housing, the Aurora City Council will consider on Monday a resolution that would allow the use of buildings with “modular construction” to provide affordable housing units.
The goal of Aurora’s modular construction resolution is to “increase attainable housing,” according to city staff.
With modular construction, buildings are built offsite and then moved, like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, onto a property. The method is seen as more effective, faster and more environmentally friendly than regular construction, officials said.
Off-site construction “makes modular housing a promising and innovative solution for increasing the supply of housing with construction timelines that are more than 50% faster than site-built construction,” the resolution states. “The controlled environment of off-site construction therefore doubles the number of homes delivered in the same amount of time at approximately the same cost.”