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Yesterday the newly-launched J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Households released The Silent Housing Crisis , a white paper documenting the considerable housing challenges facing the nation and making a call to action by the nation’s political leaders. I did my architectural thesis on factory-built modular housing and it is effortless to envision how we may possibly hoist modular properties onto parking lots and rooftops. I suspect there are a quantity of inter-linked causes but if I was forced to sum up my view in 1 sentence, I would say that we have been losing the battle to control the political narrative around housing for 40 years.

The most recent government sponsored English Housing Survey (EHS)(published Feb 2016) shows, for example, that 50{553a2bab47607db58937e8b5f08f169ae6a2a5e05b62106fabf5c75f7800d625} of households in London rent (23{553a2bab47607db58937e8b5f08f169ae6a2a5e05b62106fabf5c75f7800d625} council of HA, 27{553a2bab47607db58937e8b5f08f169ae6a2a5e05b62106fabf5c75f7800d625} private rented sector). The new report, primarily based on the newest information from the American Neighborhood Survey (2010), took a appear at the housing costs for operating households – these earning up to 120 {553a2bab47607db58937e8b5f08f169ae6a2a5e05b62106fabf5c75f7800d625} of their area median earnings and who worked at least 20 hours every week. That signifies any future social rented houses will rely on housing providers’ internal funding, and there is …