Steve,
Council houses were sold, but that did not change the quality of our housing stock one iota.
How could it?
Only the names on the deeds changed.
Nothing else.
It is an irrelevance but you keep banging on about it because you do not know what else to say!

It is also very lame to suggest that we shouldn't take more refugees because of a housing shortage.

The people here who would remain or be made homeless would not think it lame Steve.
Try to put yourself in their position, and not your comfortable position that you so love to keep telling us about.

You have yet to tell us what delicacies you returned to your lovely home with on the second day of the food fest., and which of the bountiful crop in your lovely garden will garnish them.