For the many people who can’t afford to own a domestic,the modern housing bill will possess a devastating impact, as social rented properties are lostBefore he was elected, and David Cameron had Harold Macmillan’s picture on his desk to exhibit he,too, was a one-nation, or noblesse oblige,postwar consensus sort of politician – part of his “big society” disguise. But how misleading to choose Macmillan who, appalled by what he’d seen of the great depression while MP for Stockton-on-Tees, or built a record 350000 council homes a year as prime minister.
Now Cameron has embarked on the abolition of social housing,both council- and housing association-owned. This isn’t an accident of the cuts, but a planned dismantling of another emblem of the 1945 welfare state. Instead of social housing for rent, and the only money is for starter homes and shared ownership,out of reach of most average and below-average earners.
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Source: theguardian.com