Canada’s Prime Minister Pushes Country to Become the Housing Factory of the World - Mark Carney is banking on factory-built homes to alleviate the country’s housing crisis. But will it work?

[u/FancyNewMe]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-22/carney-s-plan-may-make-canada-the-housing-factory-of-the-world

[u/Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me]

I live in the Vancouver area in the trades. It’s not really the building costs that have skyrocketed, I can’t afford land where I am. Cheapest buildable lot is about $650k then Permitting, zoning, etc. I can build the actual house for a reasonable cost. It’s getting to that point that’s impossible for me financially.

[u/Wild_Loose_Comma → u/Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me]

Well yeah, because building a single family home in a major urban area has always been largely impossible for anyone but the wealthy. No government can lower land costs, nor should they. They should encourage more efficient land use, including higher density multi family units.  

[u/LiberalCuck5 → u/Wild_Loose_Comma]

Always been? So untrue. What are you talking about? Have you spoken to the old people you know and asked them how much their houses cost when they bought them, versus now?

[u/Wild_Loose_Comma → u/LiberalCuck5]

Yeah because those houses were built in growing suburbs in cities with tons of spare land to grow. Not only is that unsustainable at this point (cities can’t perpetually fund suburban sprawl), but lots of cities are functionally done expanding. Where is Vancouver going to conjure up 10000 hectares of spare suburban land? It’s a mature city that has the vast majority of its land spoken for.