VAUGHAN, Ont. – Liberal Leader Mark Carney says his government would double Canada’s rate of residential housing construction over the next decade to nearly 500,000 new homes per year. The plan...
Yeah, the modular building incentives are interesting too. Anyone old enough from rural Canada remembers the proliferation of the Quonset after WW2 – a prefabricated structure originally built to serve the military which suddenly popped up on literally every farm because the things were so cheap. But many of them are still standing today. With economies of scale, one can really build a lot with prefabricated structures very fast.
Of course, this means three story concrete apartments and trailer parks. And boomers (who benefited from their cheap entry level post war housing earlier in their lives) will complain about what it is doing to their property values.
Yeah, the modular building incentives are interesting too. Anyone old enough from rural Canada remembers the proliferation of the Quonset after WW2 – a prefabricated structure originally built to serve the military which suddenly popped up on literally every farm because the things were so cheap. But many of them are still standing today. With economies of scale, one can really build a lot with prefabricated structures very fast.
Of course, this means three story concrete apartments and trailer parks. And boomers (who benefited from their cheap entry level post war housing earlier in their lives) will complain about what it is doing to their property values.
On my suburban block a house burned down and a 3 story duplex was built and it looks great.
Plus two families on one lot with decent walkability to a grocery store and a small backyard, feels like a good approach.