Solutions to Canada’s Housing Crisis Can Be Found In The Forest

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Across the country, Canadians are feeling the direct impacts of the housing crisis. Today, 1-in-5 Canadians cannot access affordable housing and we're currently on pace to build just one-third of the 6,000,000 new homes needed to meet demand.^[39]

Canada’s forest sector can offer an expedient, economical, and climate-smart solution to this problem, helping Canada build the homes we need faster and more-efficiently. Modular wood-based building systems not only reduce the waste, noise, labour, and time required to erect a structure — a significant advantage for building projects quickly in densely populated areas — but require less energy to heat and cool long-term and, in some cases, can reduce the carbon footprint of construction by up to 25%.^[16][17]