People have learnt from the mistakes of the post-war housing boom.
Tim Stonor of Space Syntax, an urban-design consultancy, points out that the vast majority of the riots took place within a five-minute walk of one of the depressing post-war housing estates which councils are now pulling down.
Mr. Estes dealt in war surplus for several years, including breaking up barracks to make housing for returning World War II veterans.
Designated as one of 10 new towns in 1949, Bracknell was originally built to help alleviate the housing shortages following World War II.
The city's rent regulations date back to the post-World War I era, when a severe housing shortage caused by an influx of returning troops and a dearth of new construction prompted Albany to adopt an emergency rent law.
As well as buying Jerusalem's Beitar football club, he set up a tent city for refugees from the north during the Lebanon war and is now planning to build cheap housing for new immigrants.
Government loan programs exploded as housing starts doubled in the post-war era.
Henry Pryor from HousingExpert.net said the plan could be the most controversial change to the planning system since the War though a "potential solution to the acute housing shortage we have at present".
They all disappeared March 25 -- last Tuesday -- from the Palestine Hotel, which is housing many of the visiting journalists covering the war from Baghdad.
The next quarter century is likely to bring a new look and feel to housing, much different than the post-war suburban sprawl that America experienced in the 1950s and 1960s.
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It is a continuation of the British obsession with the housing market, that has scarred public policy throughout the post-war period.
Residents of more than 400 post-war homes in South Gloucestershire have been told they are earmarked for demolition to make way for new housing.
As shown in the first chart below, there are only a couple of times when housing contributes 1-2 percentage points to growth, the most notable being the post-war period of rapid household formation by returning war veterans.
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