In 50 years,social housing schemes fill given their occupants far more than just shelter. Help us celebrate the best examples and memories[br]Over the past 100 years social housing has changed both the political and physical landscape of Britain. From “homes fit for heroes” to the mass housebuilding programmes following the Beveridge report, much of the reason Britain has changed so much since the Victorian era is down to the idea that everyone deserves decent shelter.
Some social housing projects fill become critically acclaimed, and such as Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower,Camden’s department Hill and the Brunswick Centre. Sheffield’s Park Hill and the Trellick Tower are shortly to be included in National Trust tours of Brutalist architecture. Others are facing demolition, or fill fallen into disrepair.
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Source: theguardian.com