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> But not like the UK The UK's social housing scheme was/is a stonking success, right up until about 1980. it completely reset the minimum standard of housing
by KaiserPro 3y ago
> But not like the UK
The UK's social housing scheme was/is a stonking success, right up until about 1980. it completely reset the minimum standard of housing from slums to actually decent. It wasn't all a success, skelmersdale and thamesmede sucked balls.
The problem with the uk's social housing came as follows:
1) the change from needing a job to have a council house to being a dumping ground for troubled families without support
2) removing the ability of councils to fund new housing
3) overly complex centralised funding of repairs and upkeep
4) selling off housing and then taking the money away that was needed to replace them
Thats very different to the "projects"
- cpursley 3y agoI don't know the UK situation in much depth but one of the things I read was how they were disconnected from the rest of the community (socially, services, transport, etc).
- KaiserPro 3y agoindeed, some of it was/is. However in london it was (mostly) slammed in on bombsites/ex industrial places: https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/council-releases-map-of-1500-planned-homes-42344 https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/council-releases-map-of... southwark has the most council estates. the further out boroughs did try and put their estates far out. Places like thamesmede (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamesmead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamesmead) failed because there was literally nothing else around (thats improved significantly, 50 years later)