Frontier Housing President & CEO Tom Manning-Beavin is leading the DreamBuild initiative to address the severe housing shortage intensified by the 2022 Eastern Kentucky floods. Using modular construction techniques developed by Texas-based nonprofits cdcb and bc Workshop, DreamBuild reduces construction time from several months to just 45 days and aims to lower costs by a full 20%.
By assembling homes from 12 x 24-foot modules, the initiative offers a faster, more affordable solution for communities in need.
Manning-Beavin emphasizes its transformative potential, stating, “DreamBuild has the potential to completely change the dynamics of housing development for these economically distressed communities.”
With funding from the James Graham Brown Foundation, Frontier is finalizing its first prototype home, aiming to address the estimated need for 1,500 new units in the region over the next few years.
