A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Boughton John
A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Boughton John 'It was like heaven! We'd got this lovely, lovely house.' In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around…
Specifikacia A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Boughton John
A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Boughton John
'It was like heaven! We'd got this lovely, lovely house.' In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around one third of the population. It was like a palace, even without anything in it ...
At its best, council housing has been at the vanguard of housing progress - an example to the private sector and a lifeline for working-class and vulnerable people. The right of all to adequate housing had been recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but, long before that, popular notions of what constituted a 'moral economy' had advanced the idea that everyone was entitled to adequate shelter. However, with the emergence of Thatcherism, the veneration of the free market and a desire to curtail public spending, council housing became seen as a problem, not a solution.
We are now in the midst of a housing crisis, with 1.4 million fewer social
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