In order to keep up with fast population growth, Atlantic and federal housing ministers are looking at factory-built housing for the region.

They had a meeting in Halifax, Monday, to discuss the issue.

Their plan would be a catalogue of pre-approved designs that would be tailored to our climate, building codes with available materials that are in the region.

They would be a more modern version, but similar to homes built after the second World War; including a modular style.

“In rural Atlantic Canada… there isn’t really a lot of infrastructure to build homes.  We saw that when had the fires in Shelburne when we were looking at who was going to re-build there… where are the construction workers?  So, we know that modular will be a solution for that,” Nova Scotia Housing Minister John Lohr said.

Lohr added that modular homes could also be used for apartments.

He said although we need housing now, he would like to see results by mid to late summer.

The ministers will have another meeting in April in Ottawa to continue to discuss the matter.