West Coast Housing Innovations Spotlighted at HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase
October 6, 2026
“The Grande Arbor” Manufactured Home by Cavco Homes and UMH Properties
CALIFORNIA - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spotlighted multiple housing innovations and resources from the West Coast 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.
“Expanding affordable housing options is important for communities across the Pacific region,” said Region IX Administrator Will Spencer. “At the Innovative Housing Showcase, I saw how private companies are working alongside HUD and local communities to make housing easier to build and more affordable for American homebuyers.”
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 West Coast Region
A fully furnished, enterable tiny home, manufactured using Azure Printed Home's (California) proprietary factory-based 3D printing technology and advanced modular construction.
“The Grande Arbor,” a two-bedroom manufactured home from Cavco Homes (Arizona) and UMH Properties. This home is the first manufactured house built to the HUD code without a permanent steel chassis.
“The American Point Access Block” from the National Single Stair Architectural Design Competition (California), administered by David Baker Architects. This exhibit presented architectural boards, scale models, and other elements showing top designs from past competitions and design challenges.
DoBu Inc.’s (California) Super Intelligence-native software exhibit, which allowed visitors to look up what new homes really cost today in real markets, orbit real parcels in 3D, and watch a months-long due diligence process compressed into minutes.
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