Lower-cost housing has been the goal of many and has resulted in a variety of attempted solutions. Frequently the solutions have been ingenious but have foundered because they have not been integrated into the task of conceiving, creating, constructing, and delivering a total project. This integration requires an organization with a wealth of experience in design, construction, financing, development, sales and management. With such capability, a good idea can be made to work wherever a market can be created and sustained. Organized with a mind to total packaging, the F.D. Rich Housing Corporation has now introduced a precast concrete box construction technique known as the HAB System. Other box constructions have been tried recently and they have been given the generic name of “Building Blocks of the Twentieth Century”. Some have met with success, others have not gotten off the drawing boards. All have envisioned minimization of fieldwork.