...Title
Prefab Factory-Produced Housing Structures. (Foley, Ortiz, Tordillos, and Candelas)
...Recommendations
1. Direct the City Manager to:
a. Explore opportunities for the City of San José to support the advancement of modular, factory-built housing construction methods for both single-family and multi-family housing that deliver housing more efficiently while maintaining strong labor standards comparable to traditional construction.
b. Return with an information memorandum that includes, but is not limited to, the following:
i. An analysis of the opportunities and challenges to utilizing modular factory-built housing with labor standards;
ii. A comparative evaluation between modular factory-built housing with labor standards and standard stick-built construction;
iii. Recommendations on potential methodologies for incentivizing the use of modular factory-built housing in the City’s Gap Financing Program rolling request for proposal process;
iv. An assessment of opportunities to support the development of modular housing manufacturing facilities within San José, including potential economic and workforce benefits; and
v. An analysis of challenges and opportunities around steel-framed modular construction to achieve taller, denser multifamily housing than can be achieved through traditional wood-framed modular construction.
[Referred from 4/22/26 - Item C.4 (ROGC 26-180)]