HOUSING 085
architect (Part 1) might look forward to a living wage of between £21,000 and £23,000. And they could be paying £750 a month or more for something just as dire as my Tooting house-share – around half of their income going on rent. It’s doable, but only just. But how can we have allowed a situation to arise, over 30 years, where landlords are snatching so much of someone’s income?
Te UK has to be one of the worst places
right now to be a young professional (graduate lawyers, bankers, accountants or IT types aside) or anyone earning the minimum wage. For people who fall below that threshold the situation is intolerable. According to Shelter, over 1m households are waiting for social homes. In 2018, they say 29,000 social- rent homes were demolished or sold, and fewer than 7,000 were built. Tey state that in England, there are 1.4m fewer households in
social housing than in 1980. Teir website is filled with such sobering but useful statistics, such as the following: the actual rate at which houses are built has halved in 50 years, from 3m homes a year in the 1960s to 1.3 in the 2010s. Also this: in 2000, a home might cost only four times the average salary. In 2021, they said, a home would cost eight times an average salary. More worryingly, since 2019, the number of households declared homeless
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Gap Homes have given birth to a new typology for safe, welcoming, secure but economically viable housing
Gap Homes. The Maryhill Gap homes scheme features a cluster of four one-bed units placed around a shared courtyard space. There is a separate two-bed home for staff, who live on site, near the entrance. The last thing these homes look is institutional, however. The complex is set behind a brick boundary wall, with simple pitched roofs. All front doors lead off
the central courtyard, via a secure front gate, which allows both for security and passive supervision. ODB’s Gap Homes scheme uses a consistent kit of parts, comprising timber kit houses, and circular economy principles are being embedded wherever possible. All feature high quality insulation, air source heat pumps and waste water
heat recovery. They can be adapted to suit different sites and contexts, with ODB currently working to develop some two-bed units. They have also devised a procurement framework which allows Barnardo’s to work with pro bono and volunteer partners, which will minimise costs to the charity and facilitate their evolution.
Client Barnardo’s Architect O’Donnell Brown Work commenced 2023 Cost £500,000
Consultants Zero Waste Scotland
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