[ssiguy]

One of the biggest problems we are increasingly starting to see is how developers have a stranglehold on our housing market. They are withdrawing from the market now because they have a vested interest in making sure that prices don't fall. The last thing developers want is a surge in the number of homes available so they dictate what consumers have the option of buying. This is part of the fallacy of Trudeau misguided housing plan. If the man had any grasp of economics he would know that forcing rezoning around transit and opening up vacant lands all rely on the false assumption that builders will build and they most assuredly won't. You can force a horse to water.................This is why I have always been a strong supporter of modular housing.

Ottawa should offer massive tax write-offs/interest free loans to greatly expand our modular housing sector and then pay them to build them. They could buy tens or even hundreds of thousands of units of differing sizes/make-ups and then sell them to CMHC qualified buyers to be put on gov't owned lands. To ensure they embrace the idea of more affordable homes, they should be offered bigger tax write-offs for the more homes they build even to the point to where the builders of the most homes at affordable prices actually get a tax refund at the end of the year. Ottawa/provinces could help the cities build the needed infrastructure for these homes in exchange for the cities waving all application fees with instant approvals.

Modular housing is ALWAYS of superior quality and ALWAYS more affordable due to building in an assembly line fashion. They can, very importantly, be build 24/7 all year long as opposed to a max 8 hours day only 5 days a week and only in certain months of the year. Roughly 6 basic sub-1000 sq feet modular homes can be built with mass production for every one built by our current methods.