Housing Innovation Village Experience (HIVE)
Housing Innovation Village Experience (HIVE) in Newberg, Oregon, is a 10-unit cottage cluster designed to address the state’s workforce housing shortage with homes affordable to residents earning 80–120% of the area median income. Each unit integrates innovative design and construction practices to reduce both building time and overall costs.
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HIVE is a collaboration between the Missing Middle Housing Fund, SEDCOR, and the Newberg Workforce Housing Consortium, supported by local employers including Providence Health, A-dec, George Fox University, Habitat for Humanity, and Friendsview Retirement. As Oregon’s first hands-on demonstration site for housing innovation, HIVE provides a testing ground for new materials, modular assembly techniques, financing models, and policy solutions—creating scalable strategies to deliver more attainable housing across the region.
HIVE will feature homes from six innovative homebuilders including:
Unbrick USA brings cutting edge Dutch innovation to the U.S. with next generation, factory-built housing that is sustainable, durable, and environmentally friendly.
HumanKind Homes builds fire-, flood-, and hurricane- resistant homes and buildings faster and at lower costs than existing methods using automated on-site assembly of carbon-negative concrete masonry.
Mahonia NW develops sustainable cottage cluster communities using panelized construction methods that reduce time and cost to build to meet the needs of middle-income workers.
Mods PDX/HONE Modular integrates Mass Plywood Panels into modular home construction, partnering with Freres Engineered Wood’s manufacturing process to create efficient, consistent, and repeatable volumetric units.
CedarStone Design & Build specializes in sustainable, mass timber homes and innovative prefabrication systems to advance accessible, efficient, and beautiful housing with a focus on community and climate-positive impact.
