Toronto’s Downsview lands are set to become the testing ground for one of Canada’s most ambitious housing experiments — a large-scale modular housing community backed by hundreds of millions in public funding and a plan to build faster, more affordable homes.

This week, federal and municipal leaders announced that the first Build Canada Homes project will rise on the former Downsview Airport site, a 210-hectare stretch of North York once home to military operations and aircraft manufacturing. Now envisioned as a “city within a city,” the redevelopment will eventually house more than 100,000 people.

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