Tackling Cornwall’s housing crisis with innovative solutions

Cornwall is facing a deepening housing crisis. According to the Cornwall Community Foundation’s 2024 Housing Crisis Survey, demand for homelessness support services has risen by more than 140% since 2020.

Meanwhile, service providers report being overstretched, underfunded, and increasingly unable to meet the growing need.

Alongside this, the number of available long-term rentals continues to fall, squeezed by the rise of short-term holiday lets and rapidly increasing property prices. For many local people, secure and affordable accommodation is becoming harder than ever to find.

As the situation intensifies, the case for fast, adaptable housing solutions has never been stronger. Modular construction is already proving its value in Cornwall—offering local authorities and community providers a faster, more flexible way to deliver homes for those in urgent need. Cornwall Council, for example, has invested in high-quality modular units to provide move-on accommodation for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

At Mister Modular, we’re working on a new modular product specifically designed to support local authorities and housing providers with transitional housing. While we’ll be sharing more details soon, the concept is simple: modern, energy-efficient, purpose-built accommodation that can be rapidly deployed and easily relocated, scaled or reconfigured to suit evolving local need.

With homelessness rising and housing pressure mounting, modular housing offers a realistic, ready-to-go route to delivering real impact—without the long lead times and complexities of traditional construction.

If you’re working to tackle housing need in Cornwall and would like to find out more, get in touch—we’d love to talk.