The downside to this is that mass homeownership wasn't a thing at all. There was a huge class divide between the property owners who could accumulate wealth an

The downside to this is that mass homeownership wasn't a thing at all. There was a huge class divide between the property owners who could accumulate wealth and those renting houses or tenement flats who were unlikely to ever be able to purchase their own property. Sadly, the insane UK housing market is causing such a divide to return.