Factory-Built Housing Pre-Development Program More Information
About Factory-Built Housing
Pre-Development Program
In December 2022, the Strategic Growth Council (SGC) passed a resolution on Housing, Climate and Equity (Council Priority 3), which called on the Council and each member agency to support strategic and equitable growth through their programs and policies. In addition to elevating existing initiatives, the Resolution aims to identify additional tools and strategies to meet the State’s housing, climate, and equity goals in a coordinated way, at the scale and pace necessary to close existing gaps and meet the urgency of current and projected needs.
In coordination with the California Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), SGC identified factory-built housing (FBH) as an opportunity to accelerate progress toward the State’s housing, climate, and energy goals.
In October 2023, the SGC passed Resolution 23-02 directing staff to develop a pilot program that provides funding specifically for the expansion of energy-efficient manufacturing facilities eligible for and applying for federal assistance to build, utilize, or expand clean energy infrastructure, create jobs, and reduce emissions.
In 2024, SGC launched the FBH Pilot Program. Per Resolution 23-02, the FBH Pilot Program was designed to support FBH manufacturers pursuing federal funding to expand, retrofit, and/or build new energy-efficient facilities that produce energy-efficient housing. The program ran two application rounds from August to September 2024 and November 2024 to January 2025 yet did not make any awards. Based on feedback gathered through additional consultation with FBH experts and market participants, on April 27, 2025, the Council adopted a revised resolution to support energy-efficient factory-built housing to meet the State’s housing, climate, and equity goals.1 The resolution directs SGC staff to develop a modified pilot program that expands the scope of the FBH Pilot Program by removing the requirements that program funds only be used to support FBH manufacturing facilities that are eligible for and pursuing federal funding. The redesigned program focuses on the deployment of factory-built housing units across California regions rather than on the manufacturing process itself.