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Pastor Paul Bains stands on the lot where a modular housing factory will be built in East Palo Alto on Jan. 21. County supervisors this week approved a $500,000 grant to United Hope Builders, which is partnering with a modular housing manufacturer to build the factory at the site on Bay Road. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 18, approved a $500,000 grant to United Hope Builders, a new modular housing manufacturing plant based in East Palo Alto.
United Hope Builders is the latest nonprofit initiative to support unhoused people in East Palo Alto led by Pastor Paul Bains, founder and president of WeHOPE, an East Palo Alto-based nonprofit homelessness services provider.
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Modulars can reduce construction expense, but most importantly, reduce (construction) time sometimes by as much as 40%, said Michael Brownrigg, United Hope Builders chief of staff.
In 2019, the average cost of building affordable housing in the Bay Area was $664,455 per unit. According to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, an economic and policy think tank, that figure includes construction, land acquisition, materials, labor and legal fees, among other costs, unique to the region. The floodgates have opened. I m getting inquiries every single day about this product and people wanting to come see it.
-Paul Bains, co-founder, United Hope Builders
Brownrigg couldn t yet provide the total price tag for a United Hope Builders modular home, due to some of the uncontrollable variables beyond construction, but he is certain that modular units will cost a small fraction of the typical new home.