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[VicHockeyFan]

Vancouver's first temporary modular housing project to be completed spring 2017

 

 

This works out to $75,000 per unit.

http://dailyhive.com...housing-project

 

The City of Vancouver is one big step closer to building its first temporary modular housing project now that a contractor has been selected.

 

In a release, the municipal government says it has selected Calgary-based Horizon North to construct a 14,875-square-foot, three-storey building with 40-single occupancy suites on a vacant site at the intersection of Main Street and Terminal Avenue.

 

There will be self-contained bathrooms and kitchens, individual climate control, and private living space, in addition to shared indoor and outdoor amenity space and a central library. Several units on the ground floor will be wheelchair accessible suites.

 

[LeoVictoria]

I don't really get it. How temporary are these structures? Does it still make sense when you consider how much longer a real building will last?

[VicHockeyFan]

I don't really get it. How temporary are these structures? Does it still make sense when you consider how much longer a real building will last?

 

I think the idea is that they are temporary in the sense they can be disassembled and used elsewhere next.  So you can plunk them down on some land for 2 years, and get that "land rental" for free.  That's how they cost $75k, there is no land cost.  I guess it's not much different than Atco housing in the oil camps.  Except they have more land to spread out up north.  These ones need to stack.

[LeoVictoria]

I think the idea is that they are temporary in the sense they can be disassembled and used elsewhere next. So you can plunk them down on some land for 2 years, and get that "land rental" for free. That's how they cost $75k, there is no land cost. I guess it's not much different than Atco housing in the oil camps. Except they have more land to spread out up north. These ones need to stack.

Plunk them down on some land until the neighbours get pissed off with the residents and then move them somewhere else

[JoshRH]

How long until the residents of the new temporary housing file their first official complaint against the noise from the Science World Skytrain station?