Housing Design Catalogue
Take a look at the designs as part of the Housing Design Catalogue!
The final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building details as part of the Housing Design Catalogue are now available. Homeowners, builders, and communities can use them as a head start in their planning processes.
The final architectural design packages will be released in spring 2025. Stay tuned and sign up to receive updates.
The federal government is changing how homes are built in communities across the country – by working with the housing sector and supporting innovative ways to boost Canada's housing supply.
The new Housing Design Catalogue, an initiative under Canada's Housing Plan and supported by Budget 2024, features low-rise housing designs comprised of rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and accessory dwelling units. Once the final architectural design packages are available, the Housing Design Catalogue will help simplify and speed up the delivery of housing across the country.
Prefabricated Housing Industry Design Submission
In October and November 2024, the federal government invited companies building modular, panelized, and 3D printed houses to submit existing prefabricated housing designs to help inform the Housing Design Catalogue.
The submission also supported the Industrial Strategy for Homebuilding by collecting information on the current products, capabilities, and technologies in the industry and helping the federal government learn more about the role of prefabricated and other innovative homebuilding techniques in speeding up the pace of construction.
Request for proposals
In July and August 2024, the federal government invited multidisciplinary design teams from across Canada to submit proposals for the Housing Design Catalogue.
The successful proponents of the Request for Proposals process, who led the low-rise designs for the catalogue, were announced in October 2024.
Engagements with key stakeholders, partners and experts
In January 2024, the Government of Canada began conducting targeted engagements with industry professionals and technical experts, homebuilders, non-profit housing providers, and all orders of government to inform the types of designs, features, and amenities in the catalogue, and to discuss how it can be adopted and implemented in various regions across the country.
The Housing Design Catalogue – What We Heard Report summarizes the findings from the engagement and reflects on key points that have helped to inform the government's next steps.
Download the report
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