Fab Pre-Fab Buildings

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Siddhartha Mitter
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

With all the anxiety about mortgages and foreclosures, you might forget another part of the housing crisis: The need for affordable new housing in many parts of the country. A new exhibition at MoMA shows how some architects are working with prefabricated housing to come up with new housing solutions. WNYC’s Siddhartha Mitter has this profile of one such effort.

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