Flatpack homes are being touted as the salve to affordable housing, but will it work?

Les Boyton said the idea of using kit homes to fix the housing crisis isn't sustainable in the long-term. (ABC Southern Queensland: Georgie Hewson)

Homes built off-site and trucked to the regions are being proposed as a quick solution to Queensland's housing affordability issues, but some builders say the approach isn't sustainable. 

A social housing plan, which the Department of Public Works says is the state's most ambitious construction program since World War II, will see housing projects built across regional Queensland using "modern methods of construction".