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Keep up to dateBy Josephine Smit and Josephine Smit2003-06-20T00:00:00
It may promise affordable housing on a massive scale, but the government's communities plan could simply be a rerun of 1960s prefab failures like Thamesmead (pictured). We investigate the dangers of sacrificing quality for speed and rock-bottom prices
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