Canada revives a war-time housing program amid crunch
09/08/2024
The federal government is dusting off a Second World War-era housing plan to ignite the pace of home construction in Canada.
Housing Minister Sean Fraser on Tuesday confirmed Global News’ report from Monday that the minority Liberals were taking the nearly 80-year-old program off the shelf and revamping it.
The program, which was run by what was at the time known as Wartime Housing Ltd., provided standardized housing blueprints to builders.
“In many instances, these homes were being built in a period of about 36 hours, and we intend to take these lessons from our history books and bring them…