Friday 28 September 2018

Housing crisis sorted!

Now all they need is some land...

My latest blogpost: Housing crisis sorted!Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 10:24

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9 comments:

James Higham said...

Sounds so wonderful I might emigrate.

28 September 2018 at 10:41
ThomasBHall said...

BBC- Is this the solution to the UK's housing problem?
Everybody anywhere: No
****s

28 September 2018 at 15:42
The Jannie said...

Don't worry; they aren't intended for the proles. They'll end up being used to spoil some countryside in an episode of Grand Designs.

28 September 2018 at 18:54
formertory said...

I was irresistibly but unfortunately reminded of Little Boxes by Pete Seeger.

I'm not a fan of property porn but Channel 5 did an excellent prog the other evening about "Impossible Builds" (a bit of a misnomer as they manifestly aren't) and featured a modular house, built in Invergordon, and then trucked to site in Assynt in the north-west corner of Scotland - a place I know well. The house looked absolutely superb in those surroundings. Quite science-fictiony, in fact.

29 September 2018 at 08:07
Bayard said...

"Now all they need is some land..."

Or you could attach helium balloons to them.

29 September 2018 at 08:57
Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, pre-fab houses can be as horrible or as nice as anything else. In Germany, I saw a pre-fab villa in proper Alpen pastiche style being assembled ready to move in within about a week.

TBH, this meme about getting down housing costs by getting down construction costs has been doing the rounds for decades. So how come they don't just do it? Why has it never been tried?

DCB, possibly.

FT, yes, that song hits the spot :-)

B, that's a useful thought experiment. Clearly, you wouldn't want your home blowing away across the North Sea, so you would have to anchor it somewhere. So land owners will charge you mooring fees to anchor it in a desirable area.

29 September 2018 at 15:41
Shiney said...

@MW and B

A floating house? Sounds great - when Corbad and McDonut royally f**k up the UK economy and demand I pay for it, I can can just float off somewhere warm and sunny with my [hard earned savings/ill-gotten gains]*

*delete as appropriate depending on your politics.

30 September 2018 at 20:24
Shiney said...

Just had a thought.... not sure republicans can royally f**k something up?

My Bad.

30 September 2018 at 21:29
Lola said...

Huf Houses are brilliant!
https://www.huf-haus.com/uk

1 October 2018 at 11:06

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