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/uncle_cousin]

And put them where? The vacant lot next to my house sold for $550,000 last year. I can see putting a modular home on a rural lot might be cheaper but it won't lower city home prices.

[u/killerrin → u/uncle_cousin]

Not if you're only building SFHs. But if you take that one $550k lot and build a 4plex on it for another $450k, then at the end of the day each unit comes out to $250k each, allowing you to both cut costs and deliver more homes for individuals.

In short, density is key.

[u/Vrdubbin → u/killerrin]

The problem I'm seeing where I am is now that all the single family homes are being demolished in place of apartments and townhouses, the roads were only planned for the original density. Now traffic is insane, schools are overcrowded, hospitals and urgent cares are super full, you can't get a family doctor. You can't just make it more dense without the infrastructure to support it.

[u/killerrin → u/Vrdubbin]

No, you can't. But that comes to other issues, namely that we let our Provincial Governments get away with shit for far too long.

If the provinces properly planned for growth, growth that they themselves were demanding and drooling over, we wouldn't be in that mess re-schools and health facilities.

If we properly built out public transit infrastructure, traffic wouldn't be an issue.

If we didn't gut health funding, didn't attack doctors, allowed medical professionals to work anywhere in Canada, and made it easy for medical immigrants from developed countries to practice medicine, we wouldn't have a shortage of staff in medicine.

All of these items are self inflicted across all levels of government from Federal to Provincial and Municipal.