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Apr
Vaughan grew faster than almost any other municipality in Ontario during the 1980s through the 2000s. The result is a city dominated by relatively new housing stock, the bulk of it detached and semi-detached homes with brick exteriors. To a first-time buyer or a homeowner who moved in during those years, a brick home reads as low-maintenance and durable. The reality of brick veneer construction, which is what nearly all of that housing stock uses, is more nuanced than that, and the problems that develop in it are different from what older full-brick construction produces. Vaughan homeowners are now 20…