Modular or prefabricated housing has become the cooler, more sustainable method of creating a permanent home

Tightly engineered, heavily styled up but of undoubted quality, a development of these stackable buildings, it’s said, could accommodate at least some of the almost 700 homeless families in Dublin City alone.

The problem is currently costing the four city councils in the area of €4.5m in six months of 2015 for hotel accommodation.