Finally our own home
- Filed under: Alternative Lifestyle, Asides, Family, Home, Household, News, Society, information
- Date: Sep 24,2008
With Juarez growing by 50,000 to 60,000 people a year and wages low, it was evident traditional homebuilding couldn’t respond, said McCarthy. (pfnc global communities)
An idea began taking shape about a year and a half later when he saw an article about a shipping container converted into guest quarters.
He called Nava, his cousin, with the low-cost home idea. A year later, Nava, then a junior at Notre Dame University, suggested entering the university’s business plan competition. Eventually, they won the contest.
In July 2007, the partners formed PFNC Global Communities — PFNC stands for “Por Fin, Nuestra Casa,” which roughly translates as “Finally, our own home.”
The house faces two constraints: designing in only 320 square feet and keeping the price to around $8,000 to be affordable for the average worker at maquiladoras, manufacturing plants in Mexico along the U.S. border, McCarthy said. The partners looked at clever designs for small condos and lofts, travel trailers and even private jet planes, adapting ideas they felt would work. PFNC global communities, National punctuation day, casey anthony text messages
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