Tag Archives: social housing

Spending review got it radically wrong

By , Monday, 8 November 2010, Be the first to comment

Well, at least it was radical. The Comprehensive Spending Review, that is. Unthought through, inadequately evidenced and bereft of any notion of actions having consequences. But it was radical. Read more »

Council of despair: Mr Cameron ‘signals end of council houses for life’

By , Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 12 Comments

I grew up in a council house. I was never happier than when I lived there and I was proud to have come from this estate (which was actually more like a garden village). I have, by the way, never been able to refer to myself as having grown up in ‘social housing’ as in my day, ‘council house’ just meant ‘built by the council’ and told you nothing about the people who lived in such housing, who were no different (in jobs or economic and social outcomes) from those few who owned their own houses, down the road. Read more »

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