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Increased longevity has resulted in the need for more sheltered accomodation for the elderly in the UK. Frail housing has been developed by the charity Servite Houses designed by the architects Phippen Randall and Parkes. It provides housing for the over 70-year olds who wish to maintain indpendence. Servite has developed housing based on clusters of 6 to 10 people who share a living room and dining room and have their own bedsitting room partly furnished with their own possessions. It caters for decreasing mobility and capability. There is a 24-hour manager who lives off-site.

The author discusses the business conditions of industrialised housebuilding in Great Britain. He cites that the progress of industrialised housebuilding depends on volume, standardisation and repetition. He suggests to look ways of making use of the investment already made in industrialised production, as the housebuilding industry decimated.