US EditionAre factory-built homes the answer to our housing crisis?
- Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed that the newly established organization, Build Canada Homes, plans to allocate $25 billion toward accelerating housing development in 2025.
- The investment follows a campaign promise to address homelessness and affordable housing shortages through a modular home construction plan.
- Build Canada Homes will focus on factory-built, pre-fabricated modular homes, including multi-unit housing, to create a more efficient building industry nationwide.
- Carney stated that the government plans to establish a completely transformed housing sector in Canada and that this period will present excellent opportunities for those involved in housing development.
- This initiative aims to produce hundreds of thousands of careers in skilled trades and reshape the housing market for the next quarter century or more.
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The Tories need to get serious about the housing crisis
Sam Bailey is a research associate at the Adam Smith Institute. The recent devastating local election results show that the Conservatives still have a long way to go if they’re serious about rebuilding trust. That process must begin with an honest reckoning about their record – and few failures are more serious than the long-standing inability to get to grips with the spiralling cost of renting. By now, everybody knows that rents are out of cont…
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Are factory-built homes the answer to our housing crisis?
Tonight on 'Closer Look': On the campaign trail — which included an interview on our 'Inside the Village' podcast — Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched his plan for a major boom in modular homes
Over 2,000 social homes delivered for Limerick last year as 500 people waiting seven years or more for housing
OVER 2,000 social homes were delivered in Limerick last year – four per cent of the national total. That’s according to the latest figures from the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage. This comes as 500 people have been on the waiting list for social housing in Limerick for seven years or more. Over 10,500 social homes were added to the housing stock nationally last year, with an additional 24,600 new-build social homes current…
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