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The state has chosen who will build the 1,200 tiny homes Gov. Gavin Newsom promised the state’s homeless residents. But it remains to be seen when they will be built.
>> reporter: keeping up with larry pace is not easy. >> don't touch it. excuse me, fellas. >> reporter: he moves through the floor of factory os with a sense of urgency. >> what are you doing? come on. >> reporter: located just outside san francisco, this space was first designed to build u.s. navy submarines. >> this place was built for world the war 2. >> eight decades later it's transformed to fight a worsening crisis on the american home front. >> this is a war we're in. we're in a war to combat the affordability and the housing crisis. >> reporter: they built home building onto an assembl...
Two years ago, CalMatters housing writer Matt Levin described a factory in Vallejo that was building housing modules that could quickly â and relatively inexpensively â be assembled into multi-story apartment houses. Levin described the factory as more resembling an automobile assembly line than a construction site. âThey build one floor approximately every two and a half hours,â Larry Pace, co-founder of Factory OS, told Levin. âItâs fast.â Modular construction offers a potential solution to one of the most vexing aspects of Californiaâs housing crisis...