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Radical ideas? Let’s make prefab homes on-island

IT SEEMS to me that Guernsey’s housing crisis is being looked at from the wrong end of the telescope. The problem seems to be a lack of affordable housing and the problem here is that builders are struggling to build affordable housing due to the cost of materials; labour too, but it is the rocketing price of materials that means that practically no one is prepared to give a fixed price. How can they when the cost of a block, for instance, goes up by 25% a week? The cost of plots, too, is obviously a concern but the States has plenty of land earmarked for building as do, for instance, the Coop with Leale’s Yard, where that cost must have been written down years ago. So in those two instances we should be able to build cheaply but can’t due to material and shipping costs.

Readers' Letters|Aug 31, 2023
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