Most of Australia’s modern day television presenters would be lost without it, but for Newton he believes the autocue is impacting the quality of television.

But this situation isn’t unique to England. House prices are soaring across the world, which is placing home ownership out of reach for millions. And that’s just in the developed world. Around 850 million people are currently living in “informal settlements”. In numerous rapidly urbanising cities, the average housing costs can be up to 200% of the net monthly income.

“Oftentimes people opt to pay for the emergency exit row but are not capable of operating the exit,” says Brett Manders, an international airline pilot and author of the book “Behind the Flight Deck Door.” Still, they believe that because they’ve paid for the seats, they should be able to sit in them.

A simple concrete staircase ascends along one wall of the main living area, passing through apertures in the concrete floor plates that also allow light to filter down.

North America market is estimated to account for major share in the global aluminum composite panels market owing to well matured building and construction industry in the region. Western Europe is expected to witness considerable growth in the global aluminum composite panels market during the forecast period. Growing construction industry, shifting focus of automakers towards production facilities in China and India and low cost of aluminum composite panels are expected to drive market growth in the APAC over the forecast period. Moreover, Middle East and Africa, which is quite impressive in construction industry, is expected to grow at a considerable rate over the forecast period. Latin America and Eastern Europe are estimated to witness relatively slow growth in the overall aluminum composite panels market in the next decade.

The situation is shaky even for those who own their own homes. 28,900 homes were repossessed across the UK in 2013.

Custom-made furniture like a tin tub turned into a washbasin, birch plywood walls and ceilings, and a glazed wall make up the five-room micro Contain Hotel located along the Elbe River bank in the Czech Republic. Designed by Artikul Architects to sleep up to 13 guests, the three stacked shipping containers are geometrically placed for a two-level arrangement. The bottom level has bathrooms, storage, and two containers to fit four beds, while the top level allows guests to book the other four rooms and take advantage of an outdoor shared terrace. uncrate.com

Kiwis often think container homes are cheap. The reality is that shipping container homes aren’t necessarily any cheaper than other ready-built tiny homes from group building companies and others such as Keith Hay Homes, Lockwood, and Versatile.

“The thing that makes fantasy work is that you can’t break that illusion of grandeur,” says Carlo Rotella, a professor of English at Boston College who has written about Dotrice. “His voice made everything he said sound more ancient and powerful.”

Except, of course, that Alpina’s been producing ultradesirable sedans for the past 30-odd years. Thanks to Canada’s reasonable 15-year grey market importation rules, that means you could park one of Bovensiepen’s ultraexclusive rocketships in your own garage.

These new container homes have been fitted with a kitchen, living room, bathroom and bedroom, and will be available as accomodation for someone who sleeps on the streets for an entire year.

"It’s a sanctuary space but also an institutional interface to the city of Los Angeles," Dominic Leong told Dezeen. "The design is really trying to negotiate those two types of presence within the city, and we really thought of the project as a kind of mosaic of a multiplicity of identities."