The 15 affordable apartments Renée Wetselaar dreamed of more than five years ago are nearly complete – and send a “mighty message” in Canada’s housing crisis.  

Unlike most other housing projects, the walls, floors and roof were not built on-site at 412 Barton Street in Hamilton, Ont. Instead, they were made in a Quebec factory, flat-packed and shipped to the city’s east end for assembly into a narrow, six-storey building known as 412 Barton.

“Even though it is a small build, it has a mighty message,” Wetselaar, executive director of the nonprofit St. Matthew’s House, told Canada’s National Observer.

Canada needs to build millions of affordable homes quickly to address its worst housing crisis since the end of the Second World War. Prefabricated housing is in the spotlight as a faster, cheaper and more sustainable way to deliver those homes.

Read the full article from Canada’s National Observer here.

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