‘Prefabs to solve housing crisis,’ screamed the front page of the Sunday Telegraph last weekend. Can the shortage of homes in Britain really be so bad that ministers are floating plans to encourage the first new generation of temporary, pre-packed houses since the great reconstruction drive which followed the second world war?
The UK is in the midst of a housing shortage that numerous credible experts now describe as ‘chronic’ and ‘acute’.
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