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Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by FunderPants@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] SideshowBoz@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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”?

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SideshowBoz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh nice, I read another article that didn’t mention have as much detail than CBC’s. but that’s still low rise builds, and “potentially” explore higher density…that’s a big if

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Another article I saw had a long video in it where an official was even talking about support for local changes that would even make co-ops easier to build/establish. Need to look into it more, but I hope that's true.

[–] SideshowBoz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ya co-ops would be a nice addition too. And removing parking space requirements/single family/duplex zoning from most urban areas.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why bother read the article right?

[–] SideshowBoz@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The article specifically says will “explore” higher density in the future, which is a vague promise at best. Other local articles I’ve read also paint a picture of mostly SFH designs or at best some other kind of low density design. They’ve had 7 years to address this issue, “explore” is hardly promising.

I thought we moved past this unconstructive, passive aggressive behaviour on Lemmy when we left Reddit? Other posters here have been a lot more constructive, like Cygnus and LostWon, for example.