A new type of home called a fourplex is being hailed as the answer to Canada’s acute housing shortage. But why is there so much opposition?
Angela Jiang says she is much happier since she moved out of a high-rise apartment building.
She used to live on the 68th floor of a condo tower in downtown Toronto, but five years ago she relocated to a four-unit residential building called a fourplex, in the city’s more low-rise midtown area.
Proponents of fourplexes, which include the Canadian government, hope they will spread out across the country. They want them to provide the “missing-middle” between large apartment buildings and single residency houses.
(The) opposition centres on a fear that long-existing Canadian suburbs of single-family homes will have their character irretrievably changed if fourplexes are forced upon them.
Could a housing revolution transform Canadian cities? – BBC, June 2, 2024.