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EPISODE · Mar 19, 2024 · 7 MIN

Canada’s new-ish wartime housing building plan, will this actually work?

from Own Your Life ~ by Jessi Johnson · host Jessi Johnson

In this episode, we review a new-ish plan aimed at finally tackling Canada’s housing crisis. Right now, the government is thinking about how we can build as many homes as fast as possible, and they look to the past to pave the way to the future.  Pun intended ;)In a nutshell, they are creating a catalogue of the pre-approved building designs at the federal level. Now this isn't exactly a fresh new idea, though.  After the Second World War, a similar policy was implemented with tremendous success. In 1941, the government set up a company called Wartime Housing Limited. They prepared thousands of identical blueprints and mailed them to builders nationwide. They obviously didn’t have email back then. These cookie-cutter homes were referred to as Strawberry Box Homes or Victory Houses. Guess how long they took to build? Two months... Two weeks? How about only 36 hours...Listen and subscribe for more!👉 Learn more, call Jessi at 604 716 6474, email [email protected] or schedule a time to chat here: https://calendly.com/jessirealestate

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In this episode, we review a new-ish plan aimed at finally tackling Canada’s housing crisis. Right now, the government is thinking about how we can build as many homes as fast as possible, and they look to the past to pave the way to the future. Pun intended ;) In a nutshell, they are creating a catalogue of the pre-approved building designs at the federal level. Now this isn't exactly a fresh new idea, though. After the Second World War, a similar policy was implemented with tre...

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