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Updated 24 Oct 2026

Canada’s Modular Gap Was Never a Factory Problem

Canada builds about 2 per cent of its homes off site, against 45 per cent in Sweden — a gap normally read as a technology problem. The capacity arithmetic says otherwise: the whole country is about 36 production lines running flat out, and one ATCO line at one plant would out-produce the company's average housing book across all five. The binding constraint was a customer, and Build Canada Homes has just become one.

Construction & Infrastructure Residential Construction

Updated 24 Oct 2026

The Backyard Is Being Built Over, Not Built In

Vancouver issued 730 laneway house permits in 2018 and will issue about 245 in 2026. That looks like a programme dying. It is the same lot, the same capital and the same permission, spent on a bigger building in the front instead of a small one in the back.

Construction & Infrastructure Residential Construction