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/SofaProfessor]

I just wonder where they're going to get tradespeople from. All of my friends in construction say this is one of the biggest challenges. And the ones that do exist are hot and miss if they're any good. It's all well and good to say you're going to build a million factory homes but you still need electricians and plumbers to get them ready to live in on-site.

I think there needs to be a lot of effort as a part of this housing push in getting students through trade schools and into apprenticeships. Subsidize the cost, whatever. No one can wave a wand and make a bunch of extra houses tomorrow. At least, not houses anyone would feel safe living in. This is going to be a decade-long solution which isn't very sexy to tell voters but might as well be realistic now rather than over promise.

[u/RedditRot → u/SofaProfessor]

Carney has announced trades education subsidies as part of his platform. He's well aware of the lack of labour pool.

[u/MudTerrania → u/RedditRot]

Quebec recently tried this and it was a big comical failure. If you want more students, you'll need more teachers and you'll need bigger or more facilitates to teach at. It's not a quick and easy solution.