Justin Trudeau pushes 3D-printed homes to solve Canada housing crisis
- The government will provide millions in funding to make it easier and cheaper to build new homes, with an emphasis on prefabricated modular units
- The PM has been under fire due to Canada’s soaring cost of housing and is trailing badly in the polls to Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced measures aimed at making it easier and cheaper to build new homes, with an emphasis on prefabricated modular housing.
The federal government will provide C$50 million (US$36.8 million) to a new fund meant to “support the scale-up, commercialisation and adoption of innovative housing technologies and materials,” Trudeau’s office said in a news release.
A further C$50 million will go through regional development agencies to help modernise homebuilding “through modular housing, mass timber construction, robotics, 3D printing and automation”, the release said.
Trudeau also announced C$11.6 million to support the creation of a catalogue of preapproved home designs to reduce the cost and time it takes to build housing – a strategy first used during World War II.
Earlier this week, Trudeau announced a top-up to a C$55 billion fund to provide low-cost financing for apartment building construction.
