One project in particular carries enormous emotional weight for her team: a 20-container, 6,400-square- foot safe housing development for girls between the ages of 12 and 18 who have been trafficked. “These girls are currently unsafe,” Rubin says. “Either on the streets or sleeping on their social workers’ floors and don’t have a safe home to live in.” Somewhere tonight, a young girl without stable housing will sleep in a place never designed to protect her long term. Rubin thinks about that reality often. It is part of what drives her urgency around scalable housing solutions. For her, that is where modular construction reveals its greatest value.
Not in novelty, but in impact.
A Different Housing Conversation Housing affordability, labor shortages, sustainability pressures, and disaster resilience now dominate conversations across construction and development. Rubin believes modular construction must become part of the response. “We’re in a massive housing crisis from an affordability standpoint,” she says. “And it’s getting worse.”
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Factory-built construction allows year-round production regardless of weather conditions.
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