Navajo Nation to inject $74M into manufactured home facility for new housing, to spur economy

PAGE, Arizona — The Navajo Nation is pumping nearly $75 million into a manufactured housing firm leaders hope will ease the housing crunch on the reservation, create jobs and spur economic activity. Per the arrangement with ZenniHome, a startup builder of manufactured housing, the Navajo Nation will pump $24 million into construction of a new, larger ZenniHome facility adjacent to its existing plant in Page, Arizona, near the Utah border and within Navajo Nation territory. That new plant will enable ZenniHome to bolster production, and, parallel to that, the Navajo...