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Small, Affordable Homes

Could we create a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to incentivize builders to build small, affordable homes?My grandfather and great-grandfather built my grandparents’ first house. It was a short distance down the lane from the ranch house. My grandparents were 18-year-old newlyweds; they would go on to be married until he passed away nearly 50 years later. The house was two used chicken coops they pushed together. One chicken coop became a room for sleeping, the other for daily activities. It was cold in the winter and hot in the summer. If you’ve never been inside a chicken…

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