The prospect of Brexit choking off the supply of EU
workers is reshaping Britain's homebuilding industry, with big companies
increasingly looking to factory-manufacture houses in sections that can be
slotted together on-site with minimal labour. Many of Britain's leading
housebuilders, including Berkeley, Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Your Housing,
told Reuters they were either planning new developments of prefabricated homes
or considering doing so. This represents something of a turnaround in a country
where "prefabs" have borne a strong and lingering stigma dating back
to the 1940s when Winston Churchill ordered tens of thousands of cheap, flimsy,
ugly units to be built to address a shortage housing after World War II. Read
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