Southeast Housing Innovations Spotlighted at HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase
October 6, 2026
Secretary Turner Visits Purple Heart Homes’ Modular House
GEORGIA - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spotlighted housing innovations from the Southeast region during the sixth annual Innovative Housing Showcase, held September 22-24, on the National Mall. This year’s theme, “Made in America,” highlighted American ingenuity and innovative approaches to expanding housing affordability and homeownership.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD is taking an all-the-above approach to address housing affordability,” said Secretary Turner. “This year’s Innovative Housing Showcase demonstrated how American companies are taking unique approaches to build more homes and encourage the American Dream of homeownership. HUD is working alongside local communities and private industry to unlock more housing and further opportunity for the American people.”
HUD’s “Made in America” Showcase spotlighted American builders, manufacturers, and innovators’ modern technologies and creative housing solutions that are expanding housing supply, lowering construction costs, and putting affordable homeownership back in reach for hardworking Americans. The Showcase featured a variety of full-scale housing models including manufactured, 3D printed, and modular homes built by American companies from across the nation.
Examples from the Southeast Region
A tabletop exhibit on pioneering pneumatic spray technology for ultra-high-performance concrete from Florida International University (Florida).
Singleton Designs, LLC’s (Georgia) "Boxes System-Built," a new design concept for residential construction incorporating "Boxes,” which are rough-framed structures that include floors, walls, roofs, exterior sheathing, roof decking, exterior windows, and doors that are constructed offsite and installed onto a site-built foundation.
A cross-section of one of Lagom Development’s (Georgia) Structural Insulated Panels that showed the panel’s construction and insulation materials.
Examples of Super Intelligence-powered technologies from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee) that improve productivity, affordability, safety, and quality in residential building construction.
A modular home from Purple Heart Homes (North Carolina) that featured energy-efficient closed-cell spray foam insulation as well as maintenance-friendly exteriors with all vinyl products and a metal roof.
A Tiny Home from Duke Energy Corporation (North Carolina) with nanogrid technology that mixes power sources to make homes more cost-effective.
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