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The UK needs 300,000 new homes every year to fix the housing crisis.
Hedgehog numbers may be stabilising in towns and cites, helped by routes through gardens.
We know how to build a truly zero carbon house. So why are we not doing it, on a massive scale?
Out of the existing 29 million homes in the UK, only eight million meet the highest energy standards.
Homes are now not only places to live, but also pensions, savings accounts and social care plans.
Proposals for house building in England need to take local nuance and the impacts of COVID-19 into account.
Current housing stimulus measures aim to boost buyer demand and are too small to sustain a recovery. A second round of stimulus is likely to be needed, and it should go into social housing supply.
There has never been a better time for public money to go into improving the performance of Australian housing. We could have cut household bills and emissions, as well as saving construction jobs.
Creating a simple, sustainable home isn’t as easy as it sounds. But with some planning and hard work, it can be an exciting and fulfilling journey.
Australia’s commitments to cut emissions are on a collision course with urban growth. We need a much more comprehensive strategy to make the transition to a sustainable built environment.
A tenfold increase in building is needed to overcome the current social housing shortfall and cover projected growth in need. But it can be done, and direct public investment is the cheapest way.
Sounds too cheap to be true? It probably is.
Buildings are central to creating more sustainable cities, and green ratings are often used to assess how well a building measures up against this goal. But the current system has serious flaws.
Mass production with a touch of customisation could be the best future for affordable homes.
New South Wales is the only state that has made meaningful progress on legislation and enforcement of standards capable of creating a sustainable built environment.
The idea of a hot and sunny land is so baked into our thinking about Australia that we’ve failed to design and build houses that protect us from the cold.
Brexit worries have shaken the professional end of the sector, but Britain’s troubles have run far deeper for far longer.
Have you thought about usable space, re-engineering, structural integrity, contamination, insulation and comfort? If not, you need to before jumping into building a home from shipping containers.
What happens when you find yourself homeless in the countryside?
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