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This was not on my radar of potential solutions to the housing issue, but it's a very good idea that we know works. The Liberals have been garbage at getting the message across, much of the public seems to have slipped into just not listening to them at all. But they've been working on this problem, following the recommendations in the National Housing Accord: https://www.nationalhousingaccord.ca/

I've been saying this for years. These were simple, efficiently built homes to account for a huge influx in housing needs. Why it took us this long to remember a solution that already worked is wild to me.

Sure, there is less space to build in on cities proper, but with how much we have progressed with WFH, it shouldnt be as much of an issue to build outside the core.

Good. I don't care if my home is unique, I just want a roof over my head and to start building equity.

A hackneyed plan that exists only to give the appearance of doing anything about the problem. They claim this "catalogue" will be ready next year. Let's be realistic and say it'll be two years, then it's passed on to the provinces to actually do anything about it. These in turn sit on it for another year or two, and eventually build double digits of these houses. Problem solved, everyone!

We don't need new house plans, and we certainly don't need more suburban sprawl. Why not provide interest-free loans on multi-unit construction instead, something that can get built right away?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada — but with a 21st-century twist.

It's a reboot of a federal policy from the post-Second World War era, when the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. developed straightforward blueprints to help speed up the construction of badly needed homes, Fraser said.

"When many thousands of soldiers were returning home to be reunited with their families at once, Canada faced enormous housing crunches," he said.

The goal is to better ensure housing builds can be fast-tracked for approval from the CMHC and others, while also promoting larger-scale production through factory-based construction.

The code, which the minister said the government is planning to update, offers guidelines that are only enforceable if a province or territory chooses to adopt them.

Creating a catalogue will help get shovels into the ground faster by speeding up the process of approval for everything from financing to municipal permitting, he said.

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Doesn't matter unless they modernize the building codes -- which includes things like heat pumps / air exchangers / radon remediation / greywater systems... All things that make a house better, but also cost more money -- adding to the affordability crisis.

Kids nowadays are so fucked.

Their solution is more single family zoning urban sprawl…this is sheer insanity, they’ve had 7 years and all they’ve got is “we’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas”?

Apparently the cure to urban sprawl is ... urban sprawl. Cheaply-built little matchstick firetraps, low-density shit.

What an embarrassment for anyone backing this mess.