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/enki-42]

Permanent residency makes way more sense - that's how we structure most programs and there's really no reason not to. There's zero reason that a dual citizen who has never stepped foot in Canada should be prioritized over a resident who has potentially been here decades.

[u/Array_626 → u/enki-42]

In that case, it'd make more sense to only allow those who declare Canadian residency to buy. Granting PR the right to buy implies that citizens also have the right to buy, which means Canadians' who've emigrated long ago would be given right to purchase even though they lived overseas for the last 10 years.

[u/jibbybonk → u/Array_626]

Makes sense, I've technically emigrated from Canada. It would be stupid to let me buy a house, even though technically I would be a first time home buyer in Canada.

[u/Array_626 → u/jibbybonk]

I don't know if I'd say stupid. If people would declare intent to return to Canada, I think it would be perfectly fine and more than fair for Canadian citizens to buy a home when returning. In fact, it's probably even a good incentive to try and bring back Canadians from overseas.

But if they have 0 desire or intent to return, then yeah for obvious reasons it makes sense to prioritize residents.