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31 March, 2026  

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PD&R Edge, an online magazine, provides you with a snapshot view of our newly released research, periodicals, publications, news, and commentaries on housing and urban development issues.

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Compact Cottages has specialized in producing small, stick-built homes in Asheville, North Carolina, since 2008. Founded to help fill a market for small homes in the local area, the company has delivered more than 100 units to date. In response to local hurricane impacts in 2024, Compact Cottages developed the Origami Home, a 349-square-foot dwelling that can be assembled in 1 week at a cost of around $90,000. Thanks to their innovative approaches to offsite construction, Compact Cottages is pioneering techniques that can reduce housing development costs and speed housing delivery.

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PD&R LEADERSHIP

John Gibbs. Celebrating a Year at PD&R and Looking Forward to 2026

In the Leadership Message, John Gibbs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, reflects on some of PD&R's most important achievements over the past year. These include hosting the fifth Innovative Housing Showcase; publishing cutting-edge research, analysis, and reports; and collecting, managing, and sharing critical housing and economic data. Looking forward to this year, PD&R will be focused on a range of housing-related issues, including the role of robotics and AI in improving housing production; incentivizing marriage and family formation in HUD programs; and using automation to reduce permitting timelines.

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HOUSING at 250

A Brief History of Housing-Related Systems in the United States
Over the past 250 years, governments at all levels in the United States have methodically built several key housing-related infrastructure systems. This article summarizes the 250-year history of four infrastructure systems and their impact on the U.S. housing stock: water and wastewater, waste management, electricity, and fire response. The article also examines how shifts in these major systems have improved America's housing stock from the colonial period to the modern era.

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IN PRACTICE

Historic Textile Mill Converted to Housing in Uncasville, Connecticut
Uncasville is a village of approximately 10,000 residents in the town of Montville, Connecticut, located along the Oxoboxo Brook. The village faces a significant shortage of housing that is financially attainable to many local renters, with 49.5 percent of renters spending more than 30 percent of their monthly income on housing costs. Following a nearly 10-year development process, Dakota Partners completed the largest apartment complex in Montville in over 50 years, converting a former textile mill into 72 units of housing.

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