Show caption A government white paper due next month proposes using the homes, which can be built in a day. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Housing Wave of prefab homes planned to tackle UK housing crisis Government considering 100,000 modular units to meet target of one million homes by 2020 says report Press Association Sun 30 Oct 2016 03.00 EDT Share on Facebook

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Ministers are planning a new wave of prefabs in a drive to solve Britain’s housing crisis, it has been reported.

More than 100,000 pre-packed modular homes could be constructed as the government looks at ways to meet its target to provide a million new homes by 2020, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

A government white paper due out next month will include measures to encourage banks to lend to firms that construct the homes off-site before delivering them to their final destination, the paper said.

The initiative recalls the reconstruction drive which followed the second world war as prefabs sprung up across the country as the government sought to house families bombed out of their homes by the Germans.

While the prefabs of the 1940 homes were often a byword for poor quality, improvements in technology mean that such concerns are no longer an issue.

Ministers were said to have been impressed by the fact that some of the new generation of prefabs could be put up on site in as little as 24 hours, as well as the potential cost advantages.