In Canada’s Housing Crisis, Are Modular Homes a Cheaper and Faster Solution?
- In 2025, Canada advances modular housing efforts with projects like the 25-unit Ossington Avenue complex in Toronto to address housing shortages.
- The federal and provincial governments, plus city incentives, support modular housing to reduce construction time by one-third and costs, aiming for 18,000 supportive units by 2030.
- Experts emphasize creating stable demand to allow factories to invest confidently, hire workers, and increase production of affordable, environmentally friendly prefabricated homes.
- The Ossington Avenue project, constructed in 21 working days at about $500 monthly rent per unit, demonstrates modular housing’s potential to transform unused urban land affordably.
- Modular homes could significantly help Canada’s housing crisis, yet experts note a sustainable demand and further action remain essential amid challenges like homelessness and mental health issues.
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Corrective to May 15 story about modular homes and housing
In a May 15 story about modular housing in Ontario and Canada, The Canadian Press erroneously stated that Doug Rollins is the City of Toronto's director of housing stability services. In fact, he is the interim executive director of the…
In Canada’s housing crisis, are modular homes a cheaper and faster solution? – 105.9 The Region
TORONTO — When a church in Toronto’s west end was converted into affordable housing nearly 15 years ago, the group behind the project was already thinking ahead. Andrea Adams, the executive director of the non-profit developer St. Clare’s, said she was “daydreaming” about what could be built on the yard next to the 20-unit building on Ossington Avenue. She was eventually introduced to Assembly Corp., a company that builds mass timber modular hou…
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