<b><b>Lord Falconer&’s solution to the key worker housing crisis - &“let them live in prefabs&” - has been given a less than lukewarm welcome by both housebuilders and the key workers themselves. So what can be done to build more affordable homes? Allison Heller looks for some answers to a complex problem</b></b><br><b>On Sunday April 7, housebuilders got something of a shock. Two heavyweight broadsheets carried serious articles on the growing housing crisis in the UK. They were still reeling from an earlier Guardian article headed &“We need more new homes&”. For the first time in recent memory the industry&’s arguments about planning delays and land shortages were given a proper airing. You could have knocked several industry veterans down with a feather.</b><br><b>Even stranger, television and radio programmes have taken up the cause, backed by more newspaper articles, as the revelation that we are not building enough homes finally strikes a national media chord.</b><br><b>Everyone wants to talk about it. Nicky Campbell hosted a Radio FiveLive phone-in on the crisis in the wake of housing minister Lord Falconer&’s call to house key workers in prefabricated houses. Channel 4 News followed this up and Housebuilder&’s media clippings in-tray has doubled in size.</b><br><b><b>stalemate</b></b><br> Unfortunately …
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