<b>Will Howie stumbles across a report on sustainable housing solutions and finds it something of a curate&amp;’s egg</b><br><b>In the nature of things, a fair amount of unsolicited material thumps on to my desk most days. Some of this stuff is scarcely welcome, but much of it is good value. One, well worth having, is a booklet called Sustainable housing solutions published by the Building and Social Housing Association, a body of which I was previously unaware. No doubt, that is my own fault.</b><br> Seemingly, the foundation was established as long ago as 1976 and it seeks to find innovative solutions to housing problems and to disseminate them to the producers and consumers of housing. This most recent booklet from the foundation is the product of a consultation held in the early summer at Windsor Castle where experts from various countries mulled over the difficulties arising from the concept of sustainability in housing. The publication summarises their ruminations and suggests ways of getting over these problems.<p></p><p><b><b>unconvincing</b></b><br> I admit that I have always been slightly uncomfortable with the notion of sustainability which has become an all-purpose vogue word for good-hearted people who like to load their conversation with high sounding words like …