Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has ...

The new federal agency, Build Canada Homes, is betting that modular homes built in sections in factories will help fix the housing crisis. The idea has great promise, but the plan needs to be more ...

When Assembly, a Toronto-based builder focused on prefabricated timber buildings, opens its factory in mid-2026, it expects to produce about 1,600 housing units a year with robotic equipment. Known as ...

Toronto’s Downsview lands are set to become the testing ground for one of Canada’s most ambitious housing experiments — a large-scale modular housing community backed by hundreds of millions in public ...

Demand for affordable housing not necessarily demand for prefabricated homes. Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year ...

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