Relief Cottages from Compact Cottages

A local Asheville company, Compact Cottages has introduced Relief Cottages, “innovative prefabricated home kits than can be assembled in just two hours.” Find out how you can get one of these house kits or help others needing housing.

If you have space in your backyard or own vacant land, you can help.

Following Hurricane Katrina, builders, engineers, local officials and citizens worked on a better option to provide intermediate and long-term housing than the 256 square foot FEMA travel trailers. The Katrina Cottage, Mississippi Cottage and Park Models “are manufactured, modular, HUD‐code certified housing units that meet the 2003 International Residential Code (IRC) and can withstand 150 mile per hour wind speeds. Both unit types reflect the regional Gulf Coast architecture, with hipped and gabled roofs, front porches and a cottage aesthetic.” Developing A More Viable Disaster Housing Unit: A Case Study of the Mississippi Alternative Housing Program

There are two phases, a temporary phase and a permanent phase.

Program applicants were responsible for securing a site for the Cottage on land they owned, borrowed or rented. Once an applicant and site were approved, MAHP installed the unit…

They are delivered on wheels and can be installed temporarily or permanently because the removable under‐carriage allows for installation on a permanent foundation.
Developing A More Viable Disaster Housing Unit: A Case Study of the Mississippi Alternative Housing Program

A local Asheville company, Compact Cottages has introduced Relief Cottages, “innovative prefabricated home kits than can be assembled in just two hours.”

You can see the same post on Instagram, if you aren’t on Facebook. Compact Cottages Relief Cottages on Instagram

This is the form to complete if you are in need of housing or if you would like to help others with housing: Compact Cottages Relief Cottages Application

Compact Cottage has posted more information and the floor plan.