“Mark Carney was banker genius, he gonna make the country all good with his mega brainy math stuff.”
The newly created Build Canada Homes agency will oversee plans to build 4,000 homes on six federally owned sites, as part of a $13 billion agency budget to speed up affordable home building, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.
$13B / 4,000 homes = $3.25M per home. That should make them affordable.
Awesome.
As my Hungarian co-worker used to say “Everything government touch turn to ashes” … and this is yet another example why government should never be allowed to build anything.
Brian – agreed, they should nene design, build, or operate anything. BANANA should be a label for government.
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The $13 billion is to set up new government department, hire consultants, hire architects to design houses, hire lawyers, hire inspectors, and staff a civil service department which will supervise the consultants.
Don’t forget a new computer system will be needed to enable this work. This might add to the cost.
The conceptual work should be finished in about 10 years (at double the cost). At that point they might be ready to build something.
Joe – you nailed it
“$13B / 4,000 homes = $3.25M per home.”
Exactly. Building houses is NOT the function of government!
The federal gov’t is saying that housing is expensive or difficult, and that they will bring the cure to help things along, when the federal gov’t and their cohorts in the various other governments are the reason housing is difficult, and a great reason for housing being expensive. All the while not looking at those few millions of new Canadians which ISN”T bringing any level of expertise to any field needed in the country. We have motorized street sweepers, we don’t need millions of manual street sweepers.
Holy crap the entirety of federal gov’t is insane. Medical concerns in Canada, same thing, same problem, the gov’t controls all aspects of medicine while medical access and outcomes continues to spiral downwards, and the gov’t insists more gov’t intervention is needed, bringing in a national dental and national pharmaceutical program… to ruin what is marginally functioning, bring those down to the other failing medical areas.
“Shit Midas” applies here.
#Libranos
all at the behest, wishes, and VOTING PATTERNS of enuff Canaduhians.
and the wannabes. they vote too eh? ‘practice’ voting
The Elbows Up Chicken Dancers will hop about and crow about what a great leader dear leader is.
Nothing will get built, 13 x 5 Billion will be stolen.
And the Liberano’s will be re-elected by our Eastern Comrades.
Separating all of our affairs from these spendthrift fools is the West’s only chance to retain a civil society.
“Do Canadians actually believe this garbage?”
Sadly, YES.
But only the majority.
Question 1: Who will be eligible to purchase these new modular homes?
Question 2: What controls does the Federal govt. retain on properties built on Federal owned land?
Question 3: Has the Canadian government studied this same type program in New Zealand which resulted in pre-fabricated homes ending up costing more than conventional builds?
Question 4: Does not providing $13 Billion in financing to select home builders directly contradict a capitalistic approach removing competition out of the equation and encouraging increased building costs?
Capitalism died in canada under True Dough the 1st.
Question 1 answer: Big fat lezbeens, big fat Indians, Big fat pick-your-color whining assholes, skinny Africans, Muslims, Trannies, Queers and maybe a frog or two just to be safe.
Canadian architecture in terms of housing is some of the ugliest, most impractical dogshit ever envisioned. Zero lot lines, 5 story townhouses with steep stairs, no fireplaces, just plain ugly to look at. Can you imagine what this Carneytown would look like. Can someone say, communist Chinese termite mounds?
Potemkin village comes to mind for some reason
Each Carnagetown will be another Hobema within six months if not sooner.
I wonder at the fact that no one in the media is commenting on the fact that none of the companies involved in the Build Canada Homes project are among those manufacturing the modular homes that people actually buy, and that none of the resulting homes are the sort of thing most people would want to live in.
These are all tiny homes built with non-standard methods that ignore existing building codes – using shipping containers or trailers; aggressively “green” in their design, and most of which standard heating or plumbing systems. Many don’t even have complete bathrooms, and will have to rely on shared facilities.
There are also disturbing images of scores of these things lined up like the barracks in a work camp.
At best, Canada will end up with the world’s most expensive, and cramped RV parks, but the end result will more likely look and function like concentration camps.
This is obviously not what Canadians want. No one asked for this, so why aren’t people pushing back?
“so why aren’t people pushing back?”
Because they are Canadian!
Most Canadians’ first reaction to adversity, is to cower in fear and wait for the government to solve all their problems.
These “houses” are probably above par for the intended audiences, especially for some of the new canadians, who have never seen the inside of a proper house, or a solid bowel movement, until they came to canada!
Why isn’t the media questioning? Noses are too far up Carnage’s a$$ to think about asking such questions
I meant to write “and most of which DON’T HAVE standard heating or plumbing systems.”
apologies.
Hmmm, have we learned nothing from previous experience providing housing for indigenous areas? (Local reservation politics really has a lot to do with this too.)
Don’t own it, don’t care to maintain it. I wreak it I get a new one.
“Drive it like a rental” comes to mind.
Yes I have seen that.
Just take drive past what was once an army cadet camp near Ipperwash.
“The agency’s CEO, Ana Bailão, is a former Toronto city councillor and deputy mayor who has served on the board of Toronto Community Housing.”
SO they hired someone from Toronto’s biggest slumlord?
Given that the government is giving the entire nation to First Nations, what possible reason to buy a house in Canada?
My wife and I vowed to buy our own house after the townhouse we were renting was sold out from under us and we were forced to move on someone else’s timetable instead of our own.
The move was a major disruption at an exceptionally inconvenient time.
Nobody was ever going to do that to us again.
“Given that the government is giving the entire nation to First Nations”…
This is not true. In Alberta we are secure in our home.
We live in the area of Treaty 7 where the First Welfare Recipients claim to the land has been extinguished.
I have a copy of Treaty 7. The word that Treaty 7 itself uses is EXTINGUISHED.
Heh,before Government opens another bureau maybe they should be asked;”What can you do well?”
For all their current bureaus,with the exception of the Bureau of Waste & Destruction,are miserable failures.
We have all seen the villages built by committee from the Old Soviet Union,from the ghost cities of China and from our own past attempts to save the homeless..Ghettos are wonderful.
In Canaduh we don’t have bureaus.(although the Fwench would like that)
No, Canada has Crown Corporations and Ministries.
A distinction without a difference,if it is staffed with Bureaucrats.. It is a Bureau.
Sure. Theres no difference between Canaduh and the United States.
At least in your mind, eh Johnny?
When you’re turning your country into a Shithole, there is a checklist of requirements to meet the “standard”.
Government-built homes is on the list.