Guidance Paper: Offsite Construction for Gentle Density Housing

Key insights:

This Small Housing guidance paper presents research findings from interviews, focus groups and a multi-stakeholder roundtable, including the participation of industry experts, building officials and key government representatives to unpack current barriers to adoption and explore approaches to accelerating the use of offsite construction to grow gentle density supply.

This guidance paper provides background information, identifies key barriers and offers recommendations in seven areas:

1. Government Initiatives
2. Industry Collaboration and Knowledge Building
3. Municipal Toolkits for Offsite-Ready Local Governments
4. Offsite-Ready Construction Financing
5. Pilot Studies for Modular Streamlining
6. Standard Design Catalog and Design Competition
7. Enterprise Zone Incentives