This prefab homebuilder is moving from tiny ADUs to small-scale starter homes

Samara, the prefabricated homebuilder that was created to chip away at California’s housing shortage with well-designed accessory dwelling units (ADUs), is sizing up. But not too much. The company has just unveiled Locale by Samara, an expansion into single family homebuilding. But these aren’t the typical single family homes, which now average nearly 2,200 square feet (204 square meters) in size in the U.S. Instead, the company is developing significantly smaller homes, ranging between 1,000…