prefab
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Local company SuperLA, which had focused on multifamily housing like the Bungalows on Marathon apartments in Silver Lake before the fires, recently pivoted to single-family prefabs to meet the new demand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
You may have lived in one of the new bungalows or prefabs in the suburbs or in a New Town...
From BBC • May 25, 2012
The houses were Quonset huts, tar-papered dormitories, prefabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Builders sold 93,000 prefabs worth $1.3 billion, predict that totals will hit 120,000 in 1956, and that prefabs will capture 50% of the market by 1965.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below him, in the clearing where the ship had come down, he saw the rows of plastic prefabs which his crew had thrown up—laboratories, sleeping quarters, a kitchen, and Ann Howard’s schoolroom.
From Impact by Cox, Irving E.
