Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City is seeking PDA Staffing Assistance to promote the use of innovative construction types by adopting new regulations, implementing new policies to clarify and streamline permitting, and promoting innovative construction practices to the development and construction community. Innovative construction methods, such as factory-built housing and modular construction, have the potential to deliver housing at a lower price point due to construction cost savings. This would allow additional housing construction in Oakland PDAs, particularly in East Oakland, where high construction costs often make new construction financially infeasible. A limited number of modular buildings have been approved and built in Oakland recently. According to developers there is tremendous potential to more widely utilize these techniques but certain barriers exist that currently limit their use, including an unfamiliarity with the methods and products among City staff and developers/contractors and overlapping permitting and inspection jurisdictions between the State and the City which complicates and delays the development process.