Addressing the housing crisis

An interesting video I was recommended that talks about how canada dealt with its housing crisis after ww2. Apparently they hired a bunch of architects and developers to create a few standardized designs of housing that met the building codes that could be selected from and then built. Like heres 5 apartment buildings, 5 duplexes, and 5 single family home designs to choose from, choose one for your application and build it. Many houses were built in 36 hours. It talks about some of the problems that are in the way of doing something like this today, but what we could try to do to get closer to being able to do something like this. Canada and the us are not the same, but theyre close enough that I think its worth a watch.

 
stick n move said:
An interesting video I was recommended that talks about how canada dealt with its housing crisis after ww2. Apparently they hired a bunch of architects and developers to create a few standardized designs of housing that met the building codes that could be selected from and then built. Like heres 5 apartment buildings, 5 duplexes, and 5 single family home designs to choose from, choose one for your application and build it. Many houses were built in 36 hours. It talks about some of the problems that are in the way of doing something like this today, but what we could try to do to get closer to being able to do something like this. Canada and the us are not the same, but theyre close enough that I think its worth a watch.

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I can't remember the exact city, but one muni came up with pre-approved designs. If you stuck with them, you got an expedited permitting process because the city was the one who originated the design.
 
stick n move said:
An interesting video I was recommended that talks about how canada dealt with its housing crisis after ww2. Apparently they hired a bunch of architects and developers to create a few standardized designs of housing that met the building codes that could be selected from and then built. Like heres 5 apartment buildings, 5 duplexes, and 5 single family home designs to choose from, choose one for your application and build it. Many houses were built in 36 hours. It talks about some of the problems that are in the way of doing something like this today, but what we could try to do to get closer to being able to do something like this. Canada and the us are not the same, but theyre close enough that I think its worth a watch.

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Interesting I posted this before because it looks like Boston is now toying around with a similar idea for starter homes in boston.

 
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