I see we are back (with a few exceptions) with then "everybody deserves what the get as long as it's not me" view of life.
These containers may work short-term - weeks not months - but they are hot in the summer and cold in the winter and they are not proper housing. I understood the woman had worked for years and the children certainly seemed to be well mannered and bright. Chaotic living is not good for anyone and this is what we are making some families endure. The longest tenancy most can get - if the landlord will accept people on Universal Credit - is 6 months and when that six-months is up it is month to month.
There were a lot of problems after the war and if we were building the "prefabricated" housing that is available now then people would, indeed, be jumping at them. Similarly, there was a shortage of housing for service families after the war. So many of you speak with no knowledge but ignore the one person who shows she does have more current knowledge - Granny Mac.
You also speak about housing after the war as if it didn't affect you but you still think you know how ungrateful people are. They are not ungrateful. I do know. In one year, when I was 3/4 and my brother 8/9, we had four moves - that was the most but other years were not always that much better. We also had to live in "hostels" twice because of the shortage of Quarters. Our life-style was well above that of those in "temporary" accommodation now. We did not have to walk the streets to find somewhere we could get a cheap meal, there was a dining room. But there was nowhere for my mother to cook so we could have a family (and only family) meal. We had two rooms but that isn't home, especially not when trying to look after a small child with chicken-pox. My parents, like these poor souls, had no idea when a house would become vacant. Each day my brother had to travel to a school he hoped he would stay in. I don't know what number school this was but I had something like 11 changes in schooling, three at Secondary level, and I know he will have had as many before he, like me, went to boarding school at 13. We were lucky that this was available to us to give us some stability.
My parents wanted a proper home for their family and I have never thought that unreasonable. It is not unreasonable for anyone to want to their country to run its economy so that allows them to provide for their family. Chaotic lives are not a good thing either for children or adults. Heaping vituperative remarks on to people already coping with the difficulties of the right-wing economics in 2019 is cruel. Yes, we have slipped to 7th largest economy, yes we are only 27th when it comes to GDP per head now, but still this government looks after the very wealthy and lets the poorest go hang.