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Actually, it is not. The shortfall in UK's social housing can be traced back to Thatcher's policy of forcing councils to sell off their housing stock at firesa
by bostik 5y ago
Actually, it is not.
The shortfall in UK's social housing can be traced back to Thatcher's policy of forcing councils to sell off their housing stock at firesale prices, and forbid them from using the money to build new ones.
Calling that an act of vandalism would be grossly unfair to the relevant Germanic tribes.
- Veen 5y agoThat may well be true. Thatcher gambled that home owners were more likely to vote conservative (and she was right). But an investigation of the historical cause of our lack of social housing does nothing to solve the problem in 2022, which is what I meant when I said it is irrelevant. We have hundreds of thousands fewer houses than we need, so it doesn't make sense to significantly increase the population of people who will need social housing.