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Originally Posted by Djeffery
Why do you think this is better? How is trucking all sorts of raw materials to factories where one set of workers builds pieces of houses, then those pieces of houses get trucked to housing developments hundreds of miles away where another set of workers puts the houses together more efficient than building them on site? Especially with labour shortages as they are, and your number 1 plan affecting that as well.
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Modular is better because it is far more efficient. Can you imagine building cars the same way we did before Ford's assembly line? Of course not but that is exactly how we still build our housing.
Also, we live in a cold climate where there are months where little housing actually gets built made worse by the fact that cities don't allow construction outside businesses hours and nothing on weekends. This greatly curtails how much housing we can build. This is in stark contrast to modular housing built in a factory that can operate 24/7 365 days of the year. Modular housing also allows 2 pars of the housing unit to be built at the same time. One part can be building the foundation while the other part is building the house. Remember these are modular houses and not mobile ones so they can be built ANYWHERE a regular house is {you may be living next to one right now and not even know it} and qualifies forr all CMHC programs.
Obviously, modular housing is no good for high rises but it is for town/rowhomes and especially SFH. In Scandanavia, 40% of all new home construction is modular and Norway is at 50%.
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