The Rise and Fall of Council Housing

Insight24.04.197:00 AM by Inside Housing

To mark its paperback release, we are republishing an extract from acclaimed history book Municipal Dreams: the rise and fall of council housing. Here, author John Boughton explains how council housing became ’welfarised’

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