{"id":29498,"date":"2025-03-12T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-building-materials-mmi\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:30:38","slug":"the-impact-of-tariffs-on-building-materials-mmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-building-materials-mmi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of Tariffs On Building Materials: MMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mmi-logo.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the last month, the most frequent question we\u2019ve received here at the Missing Middle is, \u201cHow will the Trump Administration\u2019s unwarranted and unprecedented trade war on Canada impact housing construction?\u201d Our response had been to largely look at the macro factors. As the trade war weakens the economy and unemployment rises, families are less likely to want (or be able to<strong>)<\/strong> purchase a new home, causing housing starts to fall even further, a point made by Douglas Porter <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/economics.bmo.com\/en\/publications\/detail\/d052c9b7-4aac-4563-899a-97bfc3172a9d\/\" target=\"_blank\">at BMO<\/a>. Once the economy recovers, the period of underbuilding will cause prices and rents to spike in some markets.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca\/p\/countervailing-tariffs-could-add?utm_campaign=email-half-post&amp;r=7x88g&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- end of .navigation -->\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/features\/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-building-materials-mmi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Over the last month, the most frequent question we\u2019ve received here at the Missing Middle is, \u201cHow will the &#8230; <a title=\"The Impact Of Tariffs On Building Materials: MMI\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-building-materials-mmi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Impact Of Tariffs On Building Materials: MMI\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-29498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}