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Sustainable home design calls
Sustainable design could help ease the UK’s growing housing crisis by replacing traditional building methods with more cost effective processes, a new research report claims. The report, commissioned by RICS, into the future of UK house building found that construction rates were currently around 80,000 new homes below the required level to meet population growth and tackle affordability. The research highlights a series of low-cost housing solutions which could ease national shortages.