Canada makes an unprecedented push for multifamily housing

For more than a century, zoning ordinances rooted in segregation have encouraged the construction of single-family homes, often at the expense of apartment buildings and other structures that promote urban density. Beyond contributing to a mounting housing shortage and spiraling prices, such policies have contributed to sprawl and dependence upon automobiles.

Canada has decided to try something different. 

The government has taken the unprecedented step of offering provincial...