By Brent Bellamy, Architect + Creative Director Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press The amount of ink being spilled over Canada’s housing crisis is enough to make the global climate crisis feel neglected and envious. The post-pandemic spike of...
By Brent Bellamy, Architect + Creative Director
Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press
The amount of ink being spilled over Canada’s housing crisis is enough to make the global climate crisis feel neglected and envious.
The post-pandemic spike of Canada’s housing costs, particularly rental rates, has politicians tripping over each other to announce their solutions. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has identified that to stabilize housing costs by levelling market demand, Canada must add 3.5 million more homes (170,000 in Manitoba) to its current construction rates by 2030. This number has been repeated so often that it has reduced the public discourse about housing affordability to one of mere housing supply.
Image: A new housing development at 197 Osborne St. is an example of creating density in an existing neighbourhood. Photo - Supplied.
