• HumanPenguin
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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.

    Not, Unfortunately. This was openly the Tory plan.

    They spent the 1970s arguing that council housing was unfair competition on the private sector. And as such by their ideals harmful to the economy.

    R2B was originally set up to reduce the supply of council housing. This was why thatcher banned Local auths from using sales revenue to invest in new council housing.