Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort
Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort
The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada — but with a 21st-century twist.
A consultation process will begin next month on developing a catalogue of pre-approved home designs to accelerate the home-building process for developers, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday.
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.
"We intend to take these lessons from our history books and bring them into the 21st century." .... [More in the article]
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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.
Where are you reading that? The article says this
The modern-day version of the catalogue will instead focus on low-rise builds, such as small multiplexes, student housing and seniors' residences, then explore a potential catalogue for higher-density construction.
They are not reading, just whinging online because it is easier than actually trying.
Not to mention incredibly poorly insulated. I remember my dad lived in one and holy shit was it cold in the winter.
Thankfully there are modern building codes?
Dont even need to be that modern. My house was built in 1992 and is very well insulated. Rooms stay toasty warm thanks to cheapo baseboard heaters. Admittedly I live in a pretty mild area of BC where winters are mostly "3c and rainy".
Had you actually read the article you would have seen that they are not simply dusting off the old plan book but creating a whole new one. With modern applicable designs and up to modern codes.