01-Why Operating Costs Are Part of Housing Affordability

Title: 01-Why Operating Costs Are Part of Housing Affordability
Abstract: For decades, housing affordability discussions in Canada have focused primarily on the upfront cost of construction and the selling price of homes. Those issues remain critically important, particularly as land, financing, and construction costs continue to escalate across British Columbia. However, after years of designing, building, monitoring, and operating high-performance housing in communities such as Pemberton and Whistler, we have increasingly come to believe that one of the most overlooked components of long-term housing affordability is the cost of operating the building itself over its full lifecycle.
Contributor: Rod Nadeau; Innovation Building Group
Date Submitted: 5/14/2026
Format: PDF
Type: Text
Extent: 3 pages
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License
Is Part Of: Innovation Building Group Best Practices for Modern Methods of Construction
Description: text, photo
Identifier: 49
Date Available: 5/14/2026 12:00 AM