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Tag: Housing

Sky News interview on Grenfell anniversay

Grenfell

Published 14 June 2018

On the anniversary of the disastrous Grenfell fire, we are right to question the state of the construction sector

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House building in UK

Why they can’t fix the housing crisis

Published 12 March 2018

Both the Tories and Labour dread the radical shake-up we really need

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Modular home

The future of housing

Published 20 November 2017

The future of housing

In 2004, with the architect Ian Abley, I published a book titled Why is construction so backward?.

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Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns

Published 11 May 2007

With his plans to erect zero-carbon homes in zero-car suburbs, Gordon Brown builds on the Blairites’ small-minded approach to housing

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Housing crisis will hit IT

Published 1 June 2004

Last week the Institution of Electrical Engineers hosted a Guardian conference titled Key worker housing: building on foundations to crack the crisis.

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Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to new housing

Published 30 January 2004

We should have more stigma-free prefab homes

Kate Barker’s final report on the supply of houses in this country, commissioned by Gordon Brown and due in the spring, comes not a moment too soon.

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Lack of IT cements housing crisis

Published 17 May 2003

In his Budget speech, Gordon Brown blamed the housing market for most of the past 50 years of “stop-go” problems in the British economy.

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