Great Plains Housing Innovations Spotlighted at HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase
October 6, 2026
RealTorch Displays Atlas: a New Super Intelligence System
MISSOURI - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spotlighted housing innovations from the Great Plains 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 Great Plains Region
A sample wall built on site by Civic Saint Stonehomes (Missouri) and an AECT 3500 CEB machine from Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies demonstrating how its houses make use of compressed earth block construction.
An interactive demonstration of RealTorch’s (Kansas) Atlas, a digital super intelligence system built for homebuilding. Atlas works across housing data, homebuilding knowledge, and the builder's own project information to generate charts, maps, tables, and analyses.
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