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We're in trouble, aren't we? In this housing special issue all three of the schemes in Norwich, Cambridge and London that have been completed this year have coin-cidentally taken 11 years to design, receive planning permission and get built. These gestations lead back like architectural geological strata to the 2008 financial crash of course, and are more to do with money than anything else. But if we are to expect the downturn that many economists are predicting at the end of this year (as we go to press Germany is teetering on the edge of recession) and the trend repeats itself, it could mean that the homes you are designing now with happy visions of a glorious housing-crisis-free sunlit future in your head won't be occupied until 2030. That's a chilling autumnal thought.