Canada’s Other Housing Crisis: The One That Industry and Governments Don’t Want To Talk About
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What if the biggest challenge in buying a new home isn’t whether you can afford it, but whether it was built properly in the first place?
For many purchasers of newly built homes, this is not a hypothetical question. It is a reality.
While Canada’s housing debate focuses largely on affordability and supply, another crisis continues behind closed doors: newly built homes that do not meet minimum building code requirements—and families left to live with the consequences.
Canada’s Other Housing Crisis tells the true stories of eight Canadian families, from coast to coast, whose newly built homes became nightmares. Their experiences reveal 21 categories of negative human impact, extending far beyond the financial cost and negative health impacts of facing a home with code violations.
And Canada is not alone. New home purchasers in other parts of the world, including the United States of America, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand have experienced similar problems and also disastrous human impacts.
Drawing on decades of advocacy, research, and firsthand experience, Dr. Karen Somerville examines the risks, the serious human consequences and what needs to change.
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PAPERBACK: ISBN-13978-1997021377
HARDCOVER: ISBN-139-978-1997021384
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PUB DATE: September 20, 2026
GENRE: CONSTRUCTION
PAGE COUNT: 200 PAGES
LANGUAGE: English
PUBLISHING LOCATION: CANADA
