Has the entire social housing profession lost sight of its vision of providing good-quality, affordable housing? (“Peabody pioneers portable flats for key workers”, 31 October, page 14).

Registered social landlords’ obsession with prefab housing merely appeases the Housing Corporation and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, at the expense of providing quality long-term housing.

It is clear the government is not committed to providing decent homes for those on low incomes. These cheap prefabs would fail the new legislation aimed at ensuring robust building standards – they won’t even have decent sound insulation.

It looks like social housing has died, and the ideals of the original benevolent housing movement along with it.

Source

Housing Today

Postscript

Roger P Murphy