Prime Minister Carney has set a goal of building half a million homes a year nationwide for the next decade, while Premier Ford in Ontario has promised to erect 1.5 million homes between 2023 and 2031. However, both targets appear to be nothing but remote pipe dreams. Starts are trending in the wrong direction, with further declines expected. …The question is: Could innovative offsite construction methods be the saviour of the industry? A new report from C.D. Howe Institute… found while the approaches are not a silver bullet, they may offer valuable tools for increasing housing supply and dealing with construction workforce constraints. …The report, Building Smarter, Faster: Technology and Policy Solutions for Canada’s Housing Crisis… indicates factory-based approaches can shift up to 60% of the building process off-site… and that modular and panelized systems and mass timber could allow workers to produce more in the same amount of work hours.