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The question of housing affordability- and issues with costs, supply chain, design and affordability - are not a new problem. Today, I read about a program from the 1940s and 1950s - The Small Homes Service ( NSW) which was a strategy for a solution. Some quotes below - from the paper by Dr Noni Boyd “the NSW Small House Plan Service was intended to provide ‘plans for small houses which shall be architecturally correct, economically built, and correctly planned” “in New South Wales building costs had doubled between 1939 and 1946 and building materials were very hard to get. There was up to a two-year wait for bricks in areas” “The Small Homes Service (NSW), conducted by the Chapter in conjunction with Home Beautiful, continues to operate satisfactorily, giving a useful public service which aims at contributing to the improvement of design standards in small low-cost houses.” #housing #affordablehousing #housingaffordability #buildingahome