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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The Crown corp and modular homes seems like a pretty great way of adding a lot of affordable homes. I just hope the government lasts long enough for it to actually kick off. It's not perfect and it doesn't solve capitalism, but it will help if executed well.

If I were to bet, I'd say we'll see the effects just in time for an election, and cpc will take over and take the credit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The cost of homes is mostly land value, which is like 80%-90% in large cities. Because of sprawled zoning, bureaucracy, and greenbelt. Second biggest cost is taxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Houses are expensive even in bumfuck no where and the point of modular buildings and wartime measures is that it drops a large amount of the bureaucracy without compromising on quality like deregulating would.

I agree zoning and sprawl are problems though, there isn't as much the feds can do about it as it's more a provincial and municipal concern. The planned high speed rail (a Trudeau thing not a carney thing tbf) along the toronto-montreal corridor should help somewhat reduce the sprawl. As someone who lives an hour east of Toronto, I do wish it was planned to extend to me.