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Postwar reconstruction
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Churchill’s Push for Prefabs: Real “Homes for Heroes”
18
Apr
2023
By NICK BOSANQUET & ANDREW HALDENBY
Churchill was determined to solve the postwar housing shortage with prefabs. His Wartime Coalition government deserved more credit than it received for this extensive reform programme. Churchill avoided the trap he remembered from the end of the First World War: “Ministers should in my view be careful not to raise false hopes, as was done last time, by speeches about homes for heroes.” He remains the only prime minister to have polled 80% approval throughout his term of office.