Housing Shortage

[whiskeryron]

Does anyone agree with me that councils in the UK should build large quantities of Prefab Bungalows to ease the shortage of affordable Social Housing. I have very fond memories of these so called temporary buildings which were designed to last for 10 years, I know that some lasted much longer than that & were very comfortable to live in.

Council house (section Temporary prefabs(1941-195 Wikepedia )
housing stock. The immediate post-war period saw the building of prefab bungalows with a design life of ten years. Innovative steel-framed properties.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Perhaps the UK breeding programme needs to attract penalties not incentives!

[fiction-factory]

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Something needs to be done to build far more houses but I think the problem is one of land- everyone wants more houses but no-one wants one near them or on land that is picturesque.
Where I work there are several huge council estates that were built maybe 50-60 years ago and it struck me when I started that no council estates seem to have been built since then

[Mosaic]

Council housing building programmes were hot hard first by the oil crisis and subsequent cutbacks of the early 1970s, then by radical policy change in the 1980s under Thatcher, when councils were prevented from directly owning and managing housing.
I was interested to read the remarks made by some in this thread that were perjorative towards council house tenants.
These were often good quality houses with amenities close by. Rents were low, jobs were abundant, and public transport was affordable.
Scroll forward to now. Is it really the fault of 'council tenants' that jobs have gone, rents are astronomical and public transport is a joke?