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1980S Council House


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1980S Council House. Since the 1980s, the majority of council housing has either been sold to existing tenants. By 2003 it was estimated some 1.5 million council homes had been sold.

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By 2003 it was estimated some 1.5 million council homes had been sold. A running story for the 1980s was the transfer of council housing to housing associations, as repair bills racked up. In 1985 labour dropped its official opposition to the scheme.

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S the whole system of public housing was being dismantled. Often these stock transfers were controversial, as eileen tant, a tenant of dover’s st radigunds estate, expressed in 1988. Council housing in the uk entered sharp decline in the 1980s, but local authorities have begun to build houses again, taking advantage of historically low interest rates and policy changes, to deliver more homes than at any point in the past 30 years. S the whole system of public housing was being dismantled.

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