The Saturday after Hurricane Katrina, Andres Duany and Steve Mouzon spent the day working out the beginnings of the New Urbanist response to the staggering housing problem. Andres, who had seen firsthand the devastation of Hurricane Andrew fifteen years previously, and realized that Homestead, Florida still had a few FEMA trailers fifteen years later, housing residents whose homes still had not been rebuilt, stated early in the day that "This is a problem of such unprecedented proportion that no single delivery system is up to the task. We must have all hands on deck. We must have a solution that delivers houses that are manufactured, houses that are modular, houses that are built from kits, houses that are panelized, and houses that are site-built." That was the originating realization of the Katrina Cottages movement. To this principle, we added the requirements that the houses must be of great design, and that such design must be appropriate to the Gulf Coast region in order that we are able to rebuild as well or better than what we lost. Manufactured & Modular houses are factory-built, with manufactured houses being delivered in one or two pieces and modular houses being delivered in several pieces. But these are like no factory-built houses you have ever seen before; these are not only equal to custom site-built houses; they are stronger and of strikingly better design than most custom homes. Kit houses are like the old Sears houses, which are delivered to the jobsite in a shipping container. Your contractor assembles the parts. Panelized houses deliver primary components of the house (walls, floors, roofs, etc.) in pre-assembled panels which are stood up and attached. Interior and exterior finishes are then constructed conventionally. Site-Built houses have been America's primary delivery system since World War II. They are built from stock house plans available on this site or elsewhere.