Navajo Nation’s own lawyers split on whether it would own the $24 million ZenniHome facility
Navajo Times | Krista Allen
The closed ZenniHome facility in LeChee, Ariz., with the Grand Staircase-Escalante in the distance. The Mesa-based manufacturer partially built 18 modular homes for a Navajo Nation housing contract and delivered none before shutting down in July 2025.
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Controller Sean McCabe told Executive Branch officials that a $24 million grant for a ZenniHome manufacturing facility did not fit the federal spending category the Navajo Nation was using to report it, and he refused to release the money before the grant was terminated, according to McCabe and records obtained by the Navajo Times.
The dispute began in late 2023, when the Executive Branch moved to fund an expansion of a manufacturing facility at the former Navajo Generating Station site in LeChee, Arizona, so ZenniHome could build housing for the Nation. The authorizing legislation required the facility to be near Tuba City, roughly 75 miles away.
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