I'm not sure what a "water storage membrane" - but based on the rv toilets and generator, I'm guessing it just has a blackwater tank.

Please oh please fuck existing housing prices....

Illegally.. . We know it can be done, but we also know the gov hates that and goes out of its way to stop it because it fucks existing housing prices.

YouTubers started the shipping container fad, but it's the wrong material and a wood frame is better and cheaper.

Then it not the housing solution he pretends it is.

You can buy complete mini houses from home depot staring at $30K.

This was evidently prototyped in Minecraft. 3x3 wooden block house with ladder up to roof and some wooden fencing up there so you don't fall off.

Priced out a shipping container office once. 38k with AC

I looked into it once. Its Kore complicated than that. Wood on metal sweats and wicks, so then you gel mold. So you need to spray foam it also, making sure wood doesn't touch the spray foam. And so on.

Yup. He says he has a "water storage membrane" not sure what that means but a problem with a lot of tiny homes is that a lot of the plumbing for toilets is basically a bucket. When you go #2 ... apparently the whole tiny home can smell it. Not sure what the water storage membrane is but if it doesn't proper septic system then this can be kinda painful for a lot of people.

Anything that starts life as a sea can is going to be hard to make into a house insulated well enough for Canada.

He built it on his parent's backyard so I assume he didn't have to deal with those costs.

Bull. shit. Maybe that shack cost $20K, but not the land and septic system. Septic system alone is $25K. A mini split AC would cool that shack for $800.

“We started off with a concept and with a prototype on what affordable, luxury-looking modular houses could be and look like,” he explained.

For 20k I'm not too proud to buy my own AC unit.

Pretty damn ugly IMO. And no AC. In today's climate, that's practically suicide.

That conclusion is well in line with everything those articles point towards.

All window-dressing, absolutely no substance!

Lol, you'd have to be drinking anti-freeze for that to make any sense.

Maybe this is another position the Carney government will take "with regret" 😅

Really? A crisis ongoing for close to 10 years now was a result of a war that started last week?

Fuck off.

If only people could be educated and engaged enough to vote on merit then.

It comes as a surprise to me to find out that the affordability crisis is only 10 days old. I guess it just felt like it was decades in the making.

Around the announcement they outright asked Gregor Robinson and Carney if they wanted prices to fall, and they said no. So I think you are assuming their goal is something that it is not, because their goal is deliberately stated not to make housing affordable for average Canadians.

Voters asked for this, lets not pretend like the current roster of MP's isnt the exact same as who got us here.

Edit) I love the down votes, who is responsible if not the people in power for over a decade?

This is what happens when you let trust fund kids rise to the top in lieu of a meritocracy.

Well, I'm sure the war isn't helping, but you can't get away with blaming it on that. Housing unaffordability started way before then.

(Or is he not talking about this specific war, and he means war in the middle east in general? So ... great! We can have affordable houses once there's peace in the middle east. No biggie.)