Affordable social housing didn’t disappear — it just slipped out for a “quick refurb” in 1998 and never came back, leaving London staring at an empty plot and saying, “Right… so we’re just doing £2,300-a-month shoeboxes now?” Rents are so extortionate now that even the landlord’s calculator is saying, “Be serious, mate.” London rents areContinue reading “Affordable Homes: Gone Since ’98 — Replaced By luxury Shoeboxes”
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Council Houses Sold Off In The UK
The Right to Buy was not a housing policy. The initiative was political in nature. Although it produced homeowners, the social housing structure that first made those homes feasible was eliminated. Between 1980 and 2022, 1.98 million council homes were sold, fewer than 100,000 were replaced, that’s under 5 per cent. 40 per cent ofContinue reading “Council Houses Sold Off In The UK”
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