Comments on: Future of Housing http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wedding Cars http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-20852 Wedding Cars Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:49:28 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-20852 What we need in the UK, where increasingly we build on flood plains, is houses that float. I kid thee not, they do this in Holland these days. In Holland, they know beyond any doubt they will flood so they realistically prepare for it. Here our politicians build any old dwelling any old where safe in the knowledge that by the time any shit hits any fans they'll be retired or promoted, promoted to Prime Minister in one obvious case. Here we need mobile housing as a matter of course for the lower-paid too. We have the problem, unaddressed by anyone, that the lower-paid, after investing all their capital in their property, find themselves unable to move to new areas when work dries up as their property cannot itself be moved, being plumbed into the landscape, and cannot be sold, as work drying up in that area is why they need to move in the first place. They can't afford to move to any new areas of low-paid employment, and they can't realistically be expected to find work in an area where the work has gone from, so they exist on benefits. If they had mobile homes, they could move them relatively cheaply, so it would be economically feasible to move to new areas of employment as they develop. I also see the re-emergence of tribe cultures as houses get to be so expensive they have to be lived in by groups of people who will from necessity become tribal cultures. I don't have to explain the why of that, do I? BB What we need in the UK, where increasingly we build on flood plains, is houses that float. I kid thee not, they do this in Holland these days. In Holland, they know beyond any doubt they will flood so they realistically prepare for it. Here our politicians build any old dwelling any old where safe in the knowledge that by the time any shit hits any fans they’ll be retired or promoted, promoted to Prime Minister in one obvious case.

Here we need mobile housing as a matter of course for the lower-paid too. We have the problem, unaddressed by anyone, that the lower-paid, after investing all their capital in their property, find themselves unable to move to new areas when work dries up as their property cannot itself be moved, being plumbed into the landscape, and cannot be sold, as work drying up in that area is why they need to move in the first place. They can’t afford to move to any new areas of low-paid employment, and they can’t realistically be expected to find work in an area where the work has gone from, so they exist on benefits. If they had mobile homes, they could move them relatively cheaply, so it would be economically feasible to move to new areas of employment as they develop.

I also see the re-emergence of tribe cultures as houses get to be so expensive they have to be lived in by groups of people who will from necessity become tribal cultures. I don’t have to explain the why of that, do I?

BB

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