DENVER — Heidy Casas has a simple wish: To live close to the job she loves.

Casas is a cultural arts specialist at the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver. A new apartment building going up directly across the street from her workplace caught her attention — and she is already thinking about applying.

Modular construction technology — assembling entire buildings from sections that are prefabricated miles from a building site — is changing the skyline of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe this week, as a new five-story apartment project takes shape literally within days.

The project offers a glimpse at how Denver could build affordable housing faster — and cheaper — as the city confronts a shortage one recent analysis found could take nearly a century to erase at today's pace.

In a world where time is money, a developer bets that assembling apartments quickly will create affordability.

Blue Room Housing, a Denver-based impact-first developer creating affordable mixed-use communities through innovative modular construction, alongside RISE Modular, today reached a major construction milestone at Blue Room House One, its flagship residential modular development in Denver’s Santa Fe Arts District. 

A new report by the National Multifamily Housing Council says it will take 93 years to solve the Denver metro area's affordable housing deficit. Modular technology could help speed up the process and play a significant role in the solution.

Factory-built housing is shooting up in Denver's Santa Fe Arts District this week as crane crews hoist pre-made modules into place for Blue Room House One, a five-story mixed-use affordable building.

Gov. Jared Polis, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), and Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) announced eleven recipients of voter-approved Proposition 123 Equity funds.

The Colorado Affordable Housing Financing Fund was created to support land banking, equity, and concessionary debt for affordable housing.

The state's Tenant Equity Vehicle program is testing out ways to give renters a small financial stake in state-funded affordable housing. Here's how it works.

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