As Calgary continues to grow, there is a need for balance between building enough to satisfy demand while considering the big picture of sustainability, liveability and overall quality of life.
On the northern edge of the city, in one of Calgary’s newest communities, a cacophony of construction sound fills the air. There will eventually be 6,000 homes in Glacier Ridge, but right now it’s a bustling construction site, with show homes and some early residents sprinkled in. Excavators and loaders work with an expansive backdrop of rolling prairie, preparing land for more new builds.
Balancing housing supply and demand, however, goes beyond a question of quantity. It’s not as simple as just build, build, build. Supply alone won’t fix all the problems. A deeper look at housing reveals a more complicated conversation about the type of city we’re building. The Morales family looked at buying in every quadrant of the city, but when their sons were accepted to a soccer club in southeast Calgary where they’d be practising daily, the family limited their search to the Southeast. Wanting to be close to a high school narrowed their search even more. Ultimately, they chose the new community of Legacy.
The family researched a few different builders and settled on Jayman Built, drawn in by the selection of floor plans to choose from and the nine-month timeline for building. Their home was one of the 14,770 housing units started last year in Calgary — a record number for that indicator.
“In a place as volatile as Calgary, where there are ups and downs in the market, you can’t be super-precise about what you facilitate. So you have to create a pretty wide array of choice and some flexibility for those ups and downs,” says Josh White, director, city and regional planning at the City of Calgary., to meet buyers’ specific demands. Understanding buyers’ tastes, desires and needs is a very collaborative effort among the Jayman team, Hooge says.
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