A local Asheville company, Compact Cottages has introduced Relief Cottages, \u201cinnovative prefabricated home kits than can be assembled in just two hours.\u201d Find out how you can get one of these house kits or help others needing housing.<\/p>\n
www.Compact Cottages.com<\/a><\/p>\n If you have space in your backyard or own vacant land, you can help.<\/p>\n Following Hurricane Katrina, builders, engineers, local officials and citizens worked on a better option to provide intermediate and long-term housing than the 256 square foot FEMA travel trailers. The Katrina Cottage, Mississippi Cottage and Park Models \u201care manufactured, modular, HUD\u2010code certified housing units that meet the 2003 International Residential Code (IRC) and can withstand 150 mile per hour wind speeds. Both unit types reflect the regional Gulf Coast architecture, with hipped and gabled roofs, front porches and a cottage aesthetic.\u201d Developing A More Viable Disaster Housing Unit: A Case Study of the Mississippi Alternative Housing Program<\/a><\/p>\n There are two phases, a temporary phase and a permanent phase.<\/p>\n Program applicants were responsible for securing a site for the Cottage on land they owned, borrowed or rented. Once an applicant and site were approved, MAHP installed the unit…<\/p>\n They are delivered on wheels and can be installed temporarily or permanently because the removable under\u2010carriage allows for installation on a permanent foundation. A local Asheville company, Compact Cottages has introduced Relief Cottages, \u201cinnovative prefabricated home kits than can be assembled in just two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
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