What if supportive housing could be delivered in 12 months instead of the two to three years many projects require today?

Explore Block Line, a 41-unit supportive housing development completed in one year using mass timber construction, prefabricated components, a portfolio-based design approach shaped by manufacturing constraints, and an accelerated municipal approvals pathway.

Jennifer Breaton, CEO of YW Kitchener-Waterloo, will bring the perspective of the non-profit that developed and now operates the building. The session will also highlight the CMHC and Schulich Real Assets Leadership Institute-funded case study and replication analysis, exploring how this model could be adapted by housing providers across Ontario and financed now that the federal Rapid Housing Initiative that funded Block Line has ended.

You’ll also hear about the two-step process Block Line used to make mass timber work: validating unit modules for the tenants served, then aggregating them to the site within the fabricator’s manufacturing constraints, along with information on how to access the case study for more details.

Join us to learn:

• What made a one-year delivery timeline possible and where the biggest efficiencies were achieved.
• How to apply Block Line’s two-step mass timber process with your own design team.
• How the model could be replicated across Ontario, including potential financing levers.

Leave with practical lessons for delivering supportive housing faster, more efficiently and with low-carbon construction in mind from the start.

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