Britain Had to Build
Home-building in the United Stales is still paralyzed by high prices, crippling regulations, and old-fashioned methods. While we tolerate rickety tenements, cheeseboxes, and jerry-built new construction, we stubbornly disdain the great possibilities of prefabrication. England has created almost 200,000 pre-fabs since the war, whereas our best post-war year produced only 37,000. Such is the finding of ANTHONY F. MERRILL, who during his recent residence in England visited the building sites of every type of new post-war house and interviewed many of the urban and rural housing authorities.