Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is preparing an executive order that targets modular housing, or homes that are designed and constructed in a factory to be quickly assembled at a desired location, according to an ethics disclosure filed by one of the authors of the order.

The order, which was in draft form as of May 27, would create an “Interagency Modular Housing Task Force” comprised of state employees and an external advisory council. The two groups would recommend reforms to support modular housing development and manufacturing in Massachusetts, according to the disclosure.

Benjamin Bryant, the director of policy implementation at the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, said he helped develop a proposed structure, scope of work, and set of deliverables for the task force and council.

“I anticipate that I will be required to continue to support the refinement of the (executive order) language and possibly help present the content to the Governor’s Office over the coming weeks,” Bryant said in a disclosure he filed with the State Ethics Commission last month.

Karissa Hand, a spokesperson for Healey, said the governor “intends to create a Modular Housing Task Force and an Advisory Council” in keeping with the recommendations of a housing production commission.

“The goal will be to explore how to support the growth of modular housing in the state, which is an effective tool for increasing housing production and lowering costs,” Hand said in a statement to the Herald.

Healey has signed 39 executive orders since she took office in January 2023, with her latest approved at the start of May to promote “age-friendly policies and practices” across the executive branch.

In a June 2022 report, federal officials said off-site construction of housing — including manufactured housing, modular homes, and prefabricated structural components — could help make housing production more efficient, improve quality, and lower costs.

Solomon Greene, a former official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Biden administration, said in the report that factory-built housing and off-site construction “continue to struggle with scale and uptake” in the United States compared to industries in other countries.

That comes as increasing prices for home buyers and renters are “forcing Americans out of their homes and making housing unattainable,” the report said.

“Offsite construction, the design and delivery of housing using an industrialized and manufactured-style approach, has the potential to deliver more affordable and accessible single and multifamily housing at scale,” the report said.

Bryant said he filed the ethics disclosure because he could envision himself making the case that he should be appointed to the advisory council once he leaves the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities this summer to study at Harvard University.

“In either case, I’ve realized that I have a financial interest in the ongoing work I’m supporting to establish a Modular Housing Task Force and Advisory Council via executive order,” Bryant wrote in the ethics disclosure, a copy of which was obtained by the Herald.

Bryant said he “temporarily paused” further work on the draft executive order while he awaited a determination on how to proceed from higher-ups in the Healey administration.

Housing Secretary Ed Augustus decided that “the financial interest is not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity of the services which the commonwealth may expect from the employee,” according to the disclosure.