Factory in Kirkland Lake is set to be operational by July 1 next year Faith Greco · CBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2025 4:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: August 26 Construction on a $20-million modular housing factory is underway in Kirkland Lake — and there's a unique aspect to it. Keepers of the Circle,…

How Ottawa Community Housing is building a sustainable future August 26, 2025 Guest: Daniel Dicaire, senior manager of sustainability and conservation at Ottawa Community Housing Corporation. As climate change becomes an increasingly urgent concern, the housing sector has a crucial role to play. Daniel Dicaire, senior manager of sustainability and conservation at Ottawa Community Housing…

B.C. earmarked $500M so not-for-profits could buy rental units and keep them affordable Angela Hennessy · CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2025 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 10 Marleny Ozuna Felix seems to have won the lottery of landlords.  For as long as she stays in her building, the single mother of…

B.C. sets new 5-year housing orders for 10 more municipalities 40,000 homes to be built over the next 5 years, 14,000 of them below-market rentals The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 21, 2025 1:47 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 21 British Columbia has set new housing targets for a group of 10 more municipalities with the…

27 experts sign letter that urges governments to prioritize affordable housing over market-driven supply Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News · Posted: Aug 19, 2025 5:48 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 20 A number of B.C. urban planners and housing professors are arguing in an open letter to the provincial government that they should stop prioritizing adding…

By uyen on March 31, 2025 UBC Civil Engineering is leading a major national research initiative to transform modular construction in Canada, in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and the University of Victoria (UVic). With $8.27 million in funding from a research project supported by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the National Research…