KINGSTON — Canada’s housing and infrastructure minister toured a local modular home builder Friday morning.

Gregor Robertson, minister of housing and infrastructure, met with the head of Lodestar Structures on Sydenham Road.

The company specializes in modular buildings incorporating precast concrete, a building design the federal government indicated would be prioritized in coming years for government housing contracts.

“This is the kind of innovation that we need to see at big scale across Canada to tackle the housing crisis, Robertson said.

“We are prioritizing modern methods of construction. To use our terminology, basically, manufactured housing components that are factory built and then brought to site and assembled faster, cheaper, and greener,” Robertson said. “We want to make

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