Boxabl, a Las Vegas modular home manufacturer, has released some details of its “Casita” house-in-a-box. They expect to start shipping some time in 2021. You…
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Published May 4, 2020
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Published May 4, 2020
A new west side laneway house is nearing completion off Queen West – May, 2020
Stein + Regency is overseeing construction of a brand new laneway house off Queen St. West. It looks to be about 1,200 square feet over…
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Published May 2, 2020
YES, you CAN buy two downtown Toronto houses for only $650,000 each – or less – and one will be brand new too
When we recently posted the above headline, we received an awful lot of inquiries. While we thought it was pretty simple to see how this…
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Published April 25, 2020
Livable Lanes: Laneway Housing in Hamilton
Edmonton: In particular, while most garden suites are rented at market rate, 25 percent rent for $700 or less. From Raise The Hammer: When I…
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Published April 16, 2020
Ryerson Report Recommends ‘Distributed Density’ – including more laneway housing – to Accommodate Growth
From Urban Toronto: Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe estimates the region’s population will grow to 13.5 million people by 2041. Municipalities within…
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Published April 15, 2020
Seattle: Alley Cat laneway house looks a lot bigger than it is
From treehugger.com: Laneway housing is a terrific option to deal with aging boomers and their children. After years, no, decades of opposition, laneway housing is…
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Published April 12, 2020
Creative Exploration of a new Housing Realm for the Missing Middle: the Laneway
Maybe Hamilton’s laneways hold real potential for new ways of living independently yet together. From Hamilton’s Raise The Hammer: Earlier this year, the Hamilton-Burlington Society…
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Published April 7, 2020
WHERE are laneway houses allowed to be built?
That’s a great first question. And the answer is pretty simple. Under the city of Toronto’s Changing Lanes Program, a laneway house can be built…
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Published April 5, 2020
Toronto must be ‘brave’ and enact bold new zoning laws to confront housing crisis
Detached houses are all the city allows on more than a third of residential land From CBC News: People in the urban planning and real…
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Published April 1, 2020
Home Products: R-Hauz, Toronto, Ontario
In Toronto, a company called R-Hauz is completing a pilot version of a six-storey mass timber townhouse, and will have a pilot version of a two-storey…
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