This CABE publication, issued as a download from
CABE’s website at the end of 2009, picks up the
call for changes in ‘the way housing is delivered in
Britain’ that shaped the design body’s earlier 2009
report No More Toxic Assets: ‘the housing boom
was all about chasing volumes and shareholder
return... [while] far too often, delivering poor quality’.
With the housebuilding industry beginning to find its
feet again, CABE commissioned this collection of
views ‘to fuel a debate about the future for housing
in the next economic cycle’, and to explore new
routes and models to achieve a housing quality and
quantity ‘so conspicuously lacking to date’