These 3D-printed homes could be the future of affordable housing — for $99,000 or less

Описание: Homebuilding innovator ICON is laying the groundwork for affordable, 3D-printed homes in Community First! Village with support from Wells Fargo.
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Alan Graham, Founder & CEO, Mobile Loaves & Fishes:
They're pretty much the lost and forgotten.
These are the people that are the most special to us.
Alright. We’ve got a big crowd going.
Great.

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Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.

Graham:
And everything about what we’re doing here is 100% about building community. So come on in.

Darlene Goins, President, Wells Fargo Foundation:
Wells Fargo decided to invest in Initiative 99 because the idea of having the best architects and the best student architects around the world brings the kind of innovation that we really need to be able to accelerate the production of affordable housing in this country. We’re working with ICON with their 3D printed technology to be able to print quality, affordable, and safe homes.

Jason Ballard, Co-Founder & CEO, ICON:
We’ve partnered with Wells Fargo to undertake a global design challenge. To find a way to design homes with dignity to be built for $99,000 or less. So today the Initiative 99 Phase 1 winners were announced. We’ve picked two locations that we’re actually going to build winning designs.

Melodie Yashar, Vice President, Building Performance & Design, ICON:
Wells Fargo has shown a true commitment to making real progress in affordable housing. I'd like to welcome to the stage president of the Wells Fargo Foundation, Darlene Goins.

Goins:
Wells Fargo is contributing $500,000 in grant funding to Mobile Loaves and Fishes to help build the first I-99 designed homes to serve the underhoused.

Graham:
We're sitting in the middle of Community First! Village, and it is currently a 51-acre master plan community headed to a 176-acre master plan community designed around microhomes designed to lift the most chronically homeless men and women of the streets of Austin up off the streets. Of our 535 homes so far, ICON has printed 17.

Mona Peters, Co-Founder & Design Director, MTspace Studio:
We got super excited about 3D-printed architecture, because we really see globally the whole building industry so stagnating in the last decades. That 3D printing is really a godsend alternative where we finally have a solution for the global housing crisis.

Graham:
The phrase that we use often is that housing alone will never solve homelessness, but community will. And I think what you see here in the Community First! Village is really the manifestation of community.

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