Remaking Main Streets: Scaling Housing Options Through Intensification on Canada’s Main Streets

Remaking Main Streets dives into the possibilities of intensifying housing along Canada’s main streets, positioning this approach as feasible, financially viable, and desirable for communities and their residents.

Canadian cities have the potential to add 3.4 million new housing units on main streets — How do we unlock that potential?

The report tackles key barriers to intensification, such as regulatory challenges and funding constraints, and highlights the opportunities that lie in unlocking these urban spaces for housing, featuring case studies from the UK, Canada, and the United States.

Remaking Main Streets additionally offers a Housing Opportunities Roadmap with a step-by-step process to identify housing opportunities on your main street. See how it’s done through examples from Calgary, Winnipeg, Kitchener, Ottawa.

This project received funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) under the NHS Solutions Labs, however, the views expressed are the personal views of the author and CMHC accepts no responsibility for them.