As the current government struggles to embrace modern methods of construction (see this week's Farmer Review) and tackle the UK housing crisis, perhaps it would do well to take its cue from 1960s Soviet Russia, writes James Clegg. A report by a Greater London Council delegation to Moscow, led by Evelyn Denington, describes the city as having "a tremendous housing problem" but with the "techniques and determination to overcome them in time" The report notes that "practically all of [housebuilding] is by industrialised methods, and the city is now producing houses at the rate of roughly 100,000 a year".
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