Terrace Housing Plus Detail

Nice Summer day in Oxford today, with great sun light. Again I have been flat out with moving, so not the best photo today, but I just walked around Old Headington and noticed the detailed woodwork on a period house in Old High Street Headington, nothing fancy just detail. Why don't we spend the time to build quality housing anymore, are we in that much of a hurry to knock up housing that is not going to last? I think greed and targets from government need looking at.