{"id":61,"date":"2026-11-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:00:00","slug":"lumber-tariffs-could-support-4000-more-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/02\/lumber-tariffs-could-support-4000-more-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumber Tariffs Could Support 4,000 More Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/umar-mukhtar-1\/us-lumber-tariffs-remotion-videos-e9f3\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A housing agency said US tariffs could keep more Canadian lumber at home, potentially supporting ~4K extra homes each year through domestic homebuilding.<br \/>\nIts analysis estimated more consistent use of Canadian wood products could lift annual ground-oriented housing starts by ~4%, adding supply where wood-based building is common.<br \/>\nBuilding costs for those homes could fall by as much as ~17% in some Canadian markets, with savings varying by location and housing type.<br \/>\nDetached homes and townhouses stood to benefit most because they use more wood products than high-rise apartment buildings, improving project economics for builders.<br \/>\nThe opportunity could help housing supply and forestry, but lumber prices address only part of builders&#039; challenges, alongside elevated financing, labour, and other barriers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A housing agency said US tariffs could keep more Canadian lumber at home, potentially supporting ~4K extra homes each year through domestic homebuilding. Its analysis estimated more consistent use of Canadian wood products could lift annual ground-oriented housing starts by ~4%, adding supply where wood-based building is common. Building costs for those homes could fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}