I think wartime just has to be considered an edge case here. There was no way that Britain could have afforded to rebuild like-for-like after the war, and compe

I think wartime just has to be considered an edge case here. There was no way that Britain could have afforded to rebuild like-for-like after the war, and compensation for bomb damage couldn't have been done fairly. Who gets priority? Do Lord and Lady Middlecott have their stately home rebuilt first? Or does it start with the least valuable property and work upwards, meaning that Mr. Horace Hodge's garden shed is number one to be restored? It clearly can't be exactly proportional, otherwise his Lordship would get one wing of his mansion and Horace would get one wall of his shed, which helps nobody. I don't think it's callous of me to suggest that providing council housing for those like your grandparents was the only humane thing to do that the country could have afforded. Rather than directly restoring the pre-war social order, the post-war system was orientated towards comfortably housing the masses, and it did that with documented success.