{"id":305700,"date":"2025-11-25T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305700\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:22:26","slug":"build-canada-homes-framework-reveals-design-choices-that-could-deepen-housing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305700\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Canada Homes framework reveals design choices that could deepen housing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small-home problem<\/p>\n<p>The framework&#8217;s emphasis on standardized designs from the CMHC Housing Design Catalogue creates a significant issue. Of seven Ontario designs featured in the catalogue, none exceeds three storeys, and only five of 21 total units have three or more bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given that Canada has a substantial shortage of three-bedroom and larger homes, and the need for our cities to densify, BCH&#8217;s prioritization of small, low-rise homes is a peculiar choice,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca\/p\/build-canada-homes-just-got-clearer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moffatt wrote in his analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Missing pieces on innovation and regulation<\/p>\n<p>While BCH promotes modern construction methods, it excludes funding for research and development. The framework explicitly states the program &#8220;will only consider investments to the extent that they support its core mandate of directly increasing the amount of affordable housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This creates what Moffatt calls a &#8220;valley of death&#8221; for emerging technologies. Beyond cost concerns, the framework ignores a harder problem: &#8220;zoning and building codes often make the most promising innovations illegal to build.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One area that works<\/p>\n<p>The framework does offer clarity where it matters most\u2014affordability. &#8220;Housing is affordable when rents are no more than 30 per cent of before-tax income (based on median household income of an area),&#8221; the framework states, providing income-based tranches that Moffatt called &#8220;exceptionally detailed and common-sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The small-home problem The framework&#8217;s emphasis on standardized designs from the CMHC Housing Design Catalogue creates a significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77048,49,48,57764,137040,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-305700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-build-canada-homes","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-housing-shortage","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}