More information would be welcome about this float which took part in the 1923 Brighton Carnival.
It shows there was a housing crisis 90 years ago as there is today. It’s hard to tell whether Braybons were providing the float or being attacked, but it’s more likely the builders were being praised, as they championed low-cost housing between the wars.
The main placard says the family can find no room inside a house, so they have to live on the roof.
There were protests in Brighton over the lack of homes for poor people and this carnival float could well have been one of them.
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