HOMERS in the media
HOMERS has been covered by the BBC, the Financial Times, The Times, Euronews, Business Insider and UK trade media. Below are short summaries of the 2023–2024 coverage with links to the originals.
Figures and prices in these pieces reflect the date of publication. For current models and prices, see the catalogue.
BBC News
A report on families in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region whose houses burned down under shelling, and on HOMERS — the factory-made homes the team started building so people could move back into a home of their own quickly.
BBC Culture
A round-up of seven of the most interesting emergency housing designs in the world. HOMERS is one of them: a home that travels on a single lorry together with its furniture and goes up in a few hours without special tools.
FT: supporting Ukraine
The FT included HOMERS in its selection of initiatives through which readers can support Ukraine. The origin story: robotics engineers designed the home after employees of their Kyiv company lost their houses, with plans to expand production through a plant in Slovakia.
FT: disaster relief design
An overview of design initiatives that help people after disasters. HOMERS appears as an example of a manufacturing solution that grew out of the need to rehouse people who had lost their homes.
The Times
A piece on the Kyiv entrepreneur who builds homes for people who lost theirs in the war and is preparing to take the product to the British market.
Euronews
The story of Oleksandr Stepura: from homes for employees whose houses were destroyed in the war to housing that could help with Europe’s shortage of new homes.
Business Insider
A photo story from inside HOMERS homes, set against the scale of housing destruction in Ukraine.
B4 Business
Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, thanked British entrepreneur Chris Baxter for investing in HOMERS and supporting Ukrainian manufacturing.
Radio Jackie
An audio interview with Chris Baxter, HOMERS co-founder and investor, on what sets the homes apart.
Home Designer & Architect
HOMERS opens a crowdfunding round on Seedrs to finance expansion into new markets, giving investors the chance to buy shares in the company.
Read on Home Designer & Architect ↗
Manufacturing Today
A trade magazine feature on how housebuilding is changing. HOMERS is the example of a factory where structural parts are cut on industrial CNC machines with high precision.
British Landlords Association
A column by the HOMERS team for British landlords: why factory-built homes help deliver affordable housing when builders are scarce and energy-efficiency requirements keep rising.
Read on British Landlords Association ↗
Modern Home Builder
A profile of Oleksandr Stepura: about 30 years in robotics, then fast-assembly homes made on the same CNC machines in Kyiv that had been building other equipment.
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