When the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was being built, Alyeska and Fluor furnished housing for the workers and their families. There were barracks on-site for the single or non-supervisory workers. The supervisors and their families lived in houses and condos in Valdez. It can be done.
I agree it can be done as my company did some similar efforts in the wake of Katrina.
It is just twice as costly to do and to utilize when it is done in the north country.