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For over a century, catalogues like Aladdin's mail-order kits and the postwar Victory Homes delivered fast, affordable and replicable homes that built entire neighbourhoods. Today's Federal Housing Catalogue revives this dream with no-cost “pre-approved” or “near permit-ready” designs to spur low-rise infill redevelopment. The appeal of catalogue housing lies in repetition. Once a design is approved, it can be built again and again, reducing costs, shortening timelines, and m

Canada’s housing crisis isn’t from a lack of ideas: It’s from a system too fragmented to make them work together. Build Canada Homes (BCH) offers strategies to address Canada’s housing crisis, with early moves in financing, modular tech, and public land use representing an important step toward real progress. But siloed solutions won’t fix this system-wide problem unless they are in lockstep with zoning and approvals. Without coordinated regulatory reform, the initiative risk

Mark Carney’s plan to double construction to nearly 500,000 homes a year is a stress test for every outdated assumption built into our housing system. Local zoning, approvals, and financing frameworks were created for a slower, conventional construction process. That model simply can’t move fast enough to meet today’s urgent demand. Volumetric modules arriving onsite for assembly. Source: Guildcrest Homes . Modular construction offers an exciting opportunity. By mass producin