btw... I'd hazard a guess that any thatcher era social homes were a poor substitute for the houses on our council estate that became sold off and lost forever from the council social housing stock..

Post war 1950s red brick 3 bedroom terraced homes, each house with a massive front and back garden.
and plenty of space and grassed areas surrounding the connecting roads...

Good quality homes constructed to last, for families who were considered 'respectable working class',
who most probably nearly all worked in the factory the estate was built to house.

An excellent healthy environment and safe community to grow up in.

But that factory [ the areas main employer ] was allowed to go out of business within a couple of years of it's workforce being persuaded to start buying their own homes....

That was a shock these newly yuppified & torified mortgage holders didn't see coming...!!!
Certainly a bonanza at auction for all outsiders who were quick to recognise the ££££s value of these spacious ex council homes..

Any new build social developments in our town afterwards during thatchers reign were mostly pokey gardenless flats built on reclaimed demolition sites,
that were immediately stuffed with a new influx of jobless 'problem cases' and young families.
becoming squalid sink blocks very quickly soon after...

Yes why did New Labour fail so badly to reverse this thatchrite nightmare...???