CBC.ca

Canada needs more homes. Prefabricated houses could fill the void

Terra Page's new house was the talk of her Toronto neighbourhood. That makes sense, since it was delivered on a truck. "It was like watching a really cool giant Lego box being assembled," Page told ...
Northern Ontario Business

'I saw a need': Sault builder tackling crisis with modular homes

“When I moved back I saw a need and a demand with our housing crisis to improve the way we build things so that we can ...
The Globe and Mail

Mattamy Homes founder Peter Gilgan to start prefab housing factory in Ontario

Real estate developer Peter Gilgan plans to start a home-building factory in the Toronto area, the billionaire’s second attempt to create a prefabricated homes business as the federal government looks ...
Inhabitat

Beautiful modular homes raise the bar for affordable housing in Ontario

In response to the pressing need for sustainable and affordable housing in Ontario, Canadian design firm Montgomery Sisam Architects has unveiled plans for Durham Modular Supportive Housing, a modular ...
Vancouver

In Canada's housing crisis, are modular homes a cheaper and faster solution?

A worker inspects the framing of a modular home at the Fading West factory in Buena Vista, Colo., on Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) TORONTO — When a church in Toronto's west end was ...
Toronto Star

Prefabricated homes could be cheaper to build — and buy. Here’s how to make them work in Toronto

Mattamy Homes’ founder has a lofty goal — in 2026, open a GTA-based factory to pump out 3,000 prefabricated homes a year. Prefabricated homes, or modular housing, aren’t anything new — some laneway ...
The Globe and Mail

The Liberals are betting prefab homes will help boost supply. But who will want to live in them?

Jeffrey Dowell and Barbara Poushinsky’s home in the rural community of Rideau Ferry, Ont., about an hour outside Ottawa, has a barn-style gable roof and chipper red siding. Inside, the high ceiling, ...
Money.ca on MSN

Downsview to host Canada’s first major modular housing project

Toronto’s Downsview lands are set to become the testing ground for one of Canada’s most ambitious housing experiments — a ...
Vancouver

As Liberals push prefab, B.C. researcher touts new construction methods

Prime Minister Mark Carney, then a federal Liberal leadership candidate, visiting the UBC Smart Structures research institute on Feb. 13. Institute professor Tony Yang, left, believes prefabrication ...
Canadian Manufacturing

CABN secures funding to scale net-zero prefab homes

Once operational, the facility will be capable of producing 1.66 million cubic feet of sustainable building materials. TORONTO — CABN, a Canadian builder of prefabricated homes, closed a funding round ...
CBC.ca

'It's major': Indigenous women-led modular home factory being built in northern Ontario

Construction on a $20-million modular housing factory is underway in Kirkland Lake — and there's a unique aspect to it. Keepers of the Circle, operated by the Temiskaming Native Women's Support Group, ...