A bright blue home in Highland Park arrived in pieces.
The three-bedroom house is modular, made of four “boxes” built in a Hixson factory’s parking lot and assembled on the narrow lot on Bailey Avenue.
It’s the first house by CNE Homes, a spin-off of nonprofit developer Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise.
For CNE, which in recent years has focused mostly on building multifamily rental units, the venture is a way to try to add some lower-cost single-family homes to Chattanooga’s inventory, chief executive Chris Thompson said.
“There is a considerable need,” Thompson said by phone. “We need to deliver affordable housing that is safe, quality housing. But we also want to work people towards homeownership.”