New accommodations facility at CFB Esquimalt and plan to build more homes on military bases

[YZT580]

My understanding is that pre-fabs/ATCO style might be required in some places to bridge the gap until new, permanent quarters can be built.

spending your money twice then. 200 home subdivisions with all the bells and whistles including landscaping and sidewalks go up in every major city in less time than they are talking for the singles building. Their announcement is a joke, a very sick joke for those trying to move into the Victoria area

 

[Bluebulldog]

spending your money twice then. 200 home subdivisions with all the bells and whistles including landscaping and sidewalks go up in every major city in less time than they are talking for the singles building. Their announcement is a joke, a very sick joke for those trying to move into the Victoria area

Swing space is common for most major accommodation projects where existing is being renovated / or demo'd. Rental space from ATCO or WILSCOT would have been factored into the project budget.

Building a stick frame subdivision, in comparison to a Federally Owned asset isn't really an equivalency. But I get where you're coming from.

 

[Eaglelord17]

It is, its small, very small.

But its probably what we should be building right now, if we want to keep going with single family homes. I know the HRM City Council seems to believe that the future is in density, apartments and condos.

For larger cities density is the future. Building a bunch of small single dwelling homes still doesn’t change the fact that you have 4 families living in the same area you could have 80 (or more). It also means longer commutes, as those houses keep getting built farther and farther back until you eventually run out of space to do so.

It doesn’t mean the end of single family homes, it’s just acknowledging that larger cities have limited footprints but high populations and as such it makes sense to build densely in those areas.

Most the issues we have with housing has been we never built high density infrastructure and instead kept pushing single dwelling homes long after it became obvious it wasn’t a long term solution for those cities.

The CAF in general should be building a ton of shacks, starting with apartments then some single dwelling homes, enough to house the CAF plus some expansion. If you choose to live off base no PLD or equivalent, you pay the same as everyone else. Make the on base housing a low fixed amount across the country, ‘local housing prices’ shouldn’t matter, the military doesn’t do a local job.