Can homes built in a factory fill Canada’s housing gap?

Is the only thing that's going to fix the housing crisis actually reducing the cost of homes? And nobody actually wants that to happen.. so...
- Nobody who owns a home wants that to happen*
  
  Even moreso, those who own other people's homes.
  
  Because the entire economic system inherently benefits entrenched Capital.
  This game of Monopoly was decided before we were born.
  
  My home price has doubled since Covid, but so have all the others around me. The gains are fake. The only benefit is to the real estate agent, and my ego.
  Drive the prices into the ground.

I had a friend do this. It's a great house and the process went very smoothly.
- It's a sensible way to do it. Modern prefab doesn't necessarily mean the house is entirely built offsite and then dropped in place. It just means that more of the assembly is done in a controlled, precision, effficient environment (a factory) and then assembled on site with less time and expense. It means more houses, faster and cheaper. Which is what we need.
  
  Sears company has prefab homes still standing.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes

This can work in some places (mostly looking at the prairies), but will do close to zero in others (like eastern Canada+BC). The simple problem is that the land the house is built on is often worth something like 80% the cost of buying property. The cost of a new house can be zero, but that will do little to help people afford new homes. Only slightly better than the tax cuts PP is proposing, which will have just as weak of an effect helping those who don't already own six houses.
The solution is to use the land we already use for homes more efficiently, and the only way to do that is to build condos and apartments. Make them mixed use and you can add the rental fees of a grocery store and several other services to the mix to subsidize the cost even further. A single grocery store that'll take up half the ground floor paid something like a million in rent a year, and that was before COVID. Add a convenience store, a couple fast food restaurants, a bar, and a dentist or salon, and you've got a mini-mall that'll rake in several million in rent that has a captured clientele in those that live above and near them. And that number will be in the hundreds for a 30 story apartment in the space of half a city block, since there'd be more than ten units per floor, even if it only has two-four bedroom units.
Such buildings can't be built in a factory, even partially. Not if we want them to last more than ten years, since that's the problem with the quick condos China tried to build.
- You might not be able to pre construct the whole building, but there's a lot of new technology out there that pre builds very large parts.
  I've seen 15m pre fabricated concrete walls placed with cranes before.
  There's a lot we could probably do like that which would speed up build times.

The Vancouver special was made illegal in the late 80s for seemingly no reason. Every municipal has tons of bureaucracy on what can be built, likely in order to stifle new development and to raise home values.
This will succeed only in so much as the Liberals through Brookfield will take a chunk of profits. Which is fine, if it took a bit of corruption to wipe out municipal bureaucracy then its still a win for the poor.
I was also in favor of Doug ford getting kickbacks for opening up greenbelt, I don't see how we do 4% annual population growth without actions like that.
- The greenbelt doesn't even need development. The province's own report said we just need to make better use of our land. In too much of Ontario for too long, zoning has restricted most homes to be inefficient single family housing and suburban sprawl far from peoples' jobs. We need missing middle housing, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and greater density.
  
  Ford won't do like Eby because his voters will revolt. Opening greenbelt is the only way to get houses built sadly, though I agree that is the logical thing to do.
- I was also in favor of Doug ford getting kickbacks for opening up greenbelt, I don’t see how we do 4% annual population growth without actions like that.
  Going to assume this was awkwardly worded because why would you ever think that politicians getting kickbacks is in your best interests?? That's pants-on-head.
  What in the world does the greenbelt have to do with housing? Do you think lack of space to build is anywhere on the roster of issues standing in our way??
  
  I think land values are extremely high due to a lack of available land relative to demand. Exacerbated by sprawled zoning that nimbys have fought tooth and nail against.
- Weird take.
- Honest request: Explain to me how Brookfield is involved
  
  They are heavily invested in prefab homes. Which will help us bypass municipal laws, and build architectural style to maximize floor space with relatively cheap construction costs, like the Vancouver special used to be.

I'll save you a click. Because they're poorly and cheaply made, limited in design, and generally small. Also the savings aren't what they should be for the reduction in quality
- Where did you see the thing about quality? All I found was:
  They also had to overcome the “zeitgeist around prefabrication in Canada” which assumes factory builds are poor quality, Chicoine said.
  That’s no longer based in reality; some studies have argued prefab projects can catch potential defects during the design phase, yielding higher-quality builds.
  
  You assumed by, "save you a click," they'd read and summarized the article? No, they are such a big brain, they know everything without even having to read the article!
  
  Yeah prefabrication is the way to go to accelerate tonthebratebof houses we need right now
- That's not really the focus of the article at all.
  I think prefab has the potential to ease the housing crisis here in Australia.

The answer to this has always been no, everywhere.
- Not quite true. Many homes in Canada literally were ordered from the Eaton catalogue. Truck arrives with all the components, you assemble it yourself. We used to do these things.
  
  Yeah, but it won’t fill the housing gap.
  Those houses still have to be assembled somewhere.
  The more likely solution is a big fibre optic rollout and getting all information workers out of the cities.
  
  Yeah. We actually already do prefab with roof trusses. They are precision manufactured in a factory, shipped to the site and then assembled. This is extending the same principle to other home components like wall assemblies.

Because prefab homes are an euphemism for mobile home or trailer home. That's why. No one wants to live in a low quality house.
- You have no idea what a prefab is.
  
  Yes I do i, I have had neghibors who lived in them. all notedethat even the good ones make quality compromises over the better site built. Which isn't a surprize as site built gets nost things pre cut to size and to there isn't much room. A site built house just brings the factory to the site.
- False.
- You are mistaken. I suggest researching.