HUD Innovative Housing Showcase — Accepted, then disinvited mid-transit.

Adaptable Structures was graciously accepted to the 2025 HUD Innovative Housing Showcase on the National Mall. We shipped a container from New Zealand at significant expense. We were disinvited two weeks before the event while the container was at sea.

This is a record of what happened. It is here on the record because the alternative — saying nothing about it — would treat the disinvitation as private when the event itself was a public exhibition on federal land.

What happened

In mid-2025, Adaptable Structures applied to exhibit at the 2025 HUD Innovative Housing Showcase, held 6–10 September 2025 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The theme of the showcase was "The American Home Is The American Dream."

The application was accepted. The team prepared an Anyplace module for international transit and shipped a 40-foot container from New Zealand to the United States — a journey of approximately 35 days at significant freight cost.

Approximately two weeks before the event opened, with the container at sea and no longer recoverable, Adaptable Structures was informed that the invitation had been withdrawn. The company was not exhibited. The container, on arrival in the US, was redirected to Memphis, Tennessee, where it remains held in storage and available for first US production deployment.

The 2025 HUD Innovative Housing Showcase ultimately featured the modular and manufactured housing industry's existing US incumbents — Clayton CrossMod, Cavco, Champion, Ritz-Craft, UMH Properties, Skyline, alongside Guardian Shield Panels and Fornidos panelized — exhibiting conventional single-wide, double-wide, and panelized variants on the National Mall under the framing of US housing innovation.

What this is on the record

There is no useful purpose served by speculating publicly about why the invitation was withdrawn. The Adaptable Structures team accepted the outcome, redirected the shipment, and moved on. The container in Memphis is among the assets the company has available for first US production deployment.

What is documented here is what was. The acceptance letter. The freight invoice. The disinvitation notice. The container in Memphis. None of these are private documents — the showcase was a public federal exhibition, the freight transit was a public commercial transaction, and the Memphis container is an active company asset.

Adaptable Structures continues to operate the Anyplace programme under the same principles it operated under before: patented modular aluminum construction, the Design for Industrialisation framework, the Divergent Resource Logic carbon accounting framework, and the Hydro North America Technical and Economic Discovery Agreement signed in February 2026.