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Originally Posted by zalf
^ This seems like it would guide more new builds toward the Paragon approach: a single inexpensive but battle-tested design copy-pasted all over town. Honestly not wildly different in philosophy from all the cinderblock walkup cubes all over the core.
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Interesting you bring this up. I was listening to a piece the other day on how Canada can work to address the shortfall in housing and one of the experts they had on talked about how back in the day, post-WWII, when we needed to build a ton of housing, CMHC built up to a million 'Victory Homes' across the country with standardized designs. Involved a substantial amount of pre-fab work and even got to the point that lumber mills were producing specific lengths and widths of cuts tailored to the designs to speed up the process.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...victory-houses
And since they were pre-approved designs, they weren't getting bogged down at the municipal offices waiting for someone to pour over the designs and sign off on them.