Social housing

Social housing is any rental housing that may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing.

– Public housing - Wikipedia

Saw an interesting exhibition about social housing at the V&A: [[A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing]].

Social housing estates in London

• Alexandra road estate
• Adelaide road estate
• Lion Green Road
• Spa green
• Keeling house

History in the UK

In the mid-1970s nearly half the population of England and Wales lived in council houses

– [[A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing]]

But as we know…

with the election of [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1979 the housing sector underwent rapid [[privatisation]]. Local authority architects’ departments were disbanded, public land was sold off, and millions of council homes were bought[…]

– [[A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing]]

Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government. He said the former Tory leader or the chancellor – “I honestly can’t remember whom – looked genuinely nonplussed and said: ‘I don’t understand why you keep going on about the need for more social housing – it just creates Labour voters.’

– Clegg: Osborne casually cut welfare for poorest to boost Tory popularity | Ni…