Insights from the President: Core Unit
Monday August 06, 2007
Dear Community Leader:
For almost 40 years, Kentucky Highlands Investment
Corporation has succeeded in bringing jobs and investment to Southern and Eastern Kentucky. But we also work to solve other
long-term challenges facing our region.
Our latest efforts could be a model in providing the
solution to substandard plumbing for the almost 17,000 homes in Appalachian
Kentucky that need it. Manufactured housing component modules known as Housing
Cores include a completely finished kitchen, bath and laundry that meet
universal design standards and Kentucky
residential code.
Recently, more than 100 volunteers led by Kentucky Baptist
Fellowship and McCreary County Community Housing Development Corporation,
completed a home for a needy family as an “Extreme Build” that featured a CORE
unit. The idea has caught the attention of the media, including the Lexington Herald-Leader, which ran a front page story and two photos on the
initiative. A copy of that article has been included. It also was featured on
WKYT-TV, WYMT-TV and more than 100 radio stations across the commonwealth.
KHIC intends to build a total of 20 homes during the next
three years using this technique, but the long-term goals and benefits are
far-reaching and include:
- Providing all the mechanical parts of the house in a factory-built unit, which will make it easier for volunteer groups to build houses because most of the complex plumbing and electrical tasks have been done before work at the site begins;
- Saving labor and materials by being built in a controlled factory environment, which would reduce total construction costs; and
- Creating jobs for Kentucky workers.
We would like to thank the many partners in our CORE
projects, including:
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If you’d like more information, please contact Elmer Parlier
or me at 606-864-5175, or via email at eparlier@khic.org
or jrickett@khic.org.
Sincerely,
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Jerry Rickett
President & CEO