Canada is building more homes than ever. But is anyone making sure they are built properly?
The federal government is significantly ramping up the number of homes built in Canada each year. The conversation around housing focuses almost entirely on supply and affordability. This book asks a different question: What happens when those homes are built with code violations, and the systems designed to protect buyers fail them?
This is the first book anywhere in the world to document 21 categories of negative human impact on families who purchased newly built homes with construction defects. These are not statistics. They are the real experiences of eight Canadian families, from coast to coast, who trusted that their new home would be safe, and whose lives were turned upside down when it was not.
This book fills a gap that industry and governments have preferred to leave empty.