"That was what the post war Labour Government had in mind when they established council housing, and that is what Mad Maggie destroyed when she respectabalised greed"
Labour initiated the sale of social housing and The official data shows that the Blair and Brown governments built 7,870 council houses (local authority tenure) over the course of 13 years. (If we don't include 2010 - the year when David Cameron became PM - this number drops to 6,510.) Contrast this figure with the record of Mrs Thatcher's government, which never built fewer than 17,710 homes in a year. In 1985, 61pc of UK households were occupied by home owners. Thirty years on, that figure is the same at 61pc. For the sake of historical accuracy it was actually the coalition government(with a huge conservative majority)that passed the The Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 It was also known as the Addison Act after Minister of Health, Dr Christopher Addison, the-then Minister for Housing. The Act was passed to allow the building of new houses after the First World War,] and marked the start of a long twentieth century tradition of state-owned housing, which would much later evolve into council estates. Nothing to do with the labour party at all. They did not even figure in the coalition government that passed the originating act.