Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing factory-built housing to relieve Canada’s housing shortage and create factory jobs.
Photographer: Cole Burston/BloombergReal Estate
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?
On the outskirts of Toronto, a factory buzzing with activity is being touted as a solution to the two most urgent crises facing Canada: the unaffordable cost of housing and US President Donald Trump’s trade war.
This plant makes key parts of houses — specifically, walls, floors and roofs — that can be shipped to a site and assembled into structures as tall as six stories quicker than traditional methods.