Halifax to Be 'Local Partner' with CMHC's Housing Catalogue

Chris Selley: In defence of those 'ugly,' 'small' government-designed house plans

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. unveiled a catalogue of free-to-use home designs this week, which are supposed to make it easier and quicker to get housing approved. The designs are specifically meant for homes to fill the so-called “missing middle” in established lower-density neighbourhoods: not traditional detached single-family homes, not apartment buildings, but the things in between, like fourplexes, six-plexes and laneway houses.

Halifax to be 'local partner' with CMHC's housing catalogue

Halifax says it will be a local partner in the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) new housing design catalogue. The catalogue contains pre-designed building plans that are aimed at speeding up builds across the country. The municipality says the catalogue’s designs are tailored to regional building codes, climate zones and construction practices, and are […]

Federal housing design catalogue falls way short of sector needs: RESCON

Canadian Design and Construction Report staff writer A new federal Housing Design Catalogue fails to address the construction sector’s most pressing challenges, says Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction […]