But mainly, Boughton hopes to arm readers with a better understanding of social housing, which could help to "build better, just as we need to build more, in the future". Are new borrowing freedoms sparking a revival of council housebuilding? The Addison Act marked the birth of council housebuilding. A century later, could recent financial freedom spark a renaissance? Nathaniel Barker investigates. Among many striking things which come across from reading it is a reminder that the debates in the sector today are often an echo of much older conversations. The conversation about whether modern social (affordable) rents are truly affordable sometimes feels like a very contemporary concern. In fact, the trade-off between cost of construction and the ultimate rent charged is one that has plagued the sector from the beginning. Council Housing in Bath 1945-2013 – a social history" (PDF). Museum of Bath at Work. 2013 . Retrieved 27 August 2023.

Martin Hilditch, editor of Inside Housing, takes a trip to Hulme in Manchester to examine how the private and public sector had to work together in the 1980s to deliver a regeneration project, which is still thriving more than 30 years later.

Contents

Flynn, Rob (1988). "Political Acquiescence, Privatisation and Residualisation in British Housing Policy*". Journal of Social Policy. 17 (3): 292. doi: 10.1017/S0047279400016822. ISSN 1469-7823– via Cambridge University Press. Joanne’s 25-year-old son, who is a plasterer, still lives with her because he can’t get a council home in the area. He also cannot afford to rent privately. “He’s probably gonna have to move to Bolton,” she says. The Addison Act - celebrating 100 years of council housing This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Addison Act – which paved the way for council housebuilding on a large scale. Inside Housing has a whole month of special activity planned and we want to hear your stories In practice, this meant that local councils were dependent on their existing Borough Engineers to draw up estate plans and housing designs using the approaches suggested by the 1919 Manual, whilst others employed private architects, mostly local, to work on this brand new area of public building.

Thatcher's legacy: a brief history of the Right to Buy An engine for social change or a handbrake on council development? We look at why the Right to Buy is as divisive as ever #ukhousing It was a good idea at the start but it soon changed the vibe around here. The new home owners in Wythenshawe eventually began looking down on the ‘the council house scum’ and vice versa. Supporters of right to buy saw it as a chance for aspirational working-class people to own their own homes and improve their life prospects. Baines believed very much in the benefits of mixing low-rise flats with houses to provide for different needs and create a social mix, arguing with Raymond Unwin on this point and resigning from the Tudor Walters Committee when this was not accepted as official design guidance. HaigBarnes, William (20 January 2009). John English (ed.). "The Future of Council Housing". Journal of Social Policy. London: Croom Helm. 12 (2): 268. doi: 10.1017/S0047279400012691. S2CID 144054022. Mainly during the immediate post-war years, and well into the 1950s, council house provision was shaped by the New Towns Act 1946 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 of the 1945–51 Labour government. At the same time this government introduced housing legislation that removed explicit references to housing for the working class and introduced the concept of "general needs" construction (i.e., that council housing should aim to fill the needs for a wide range of society). In particular, Aneurin Bevan, the Minister for Health and Housing, promoted a vision of new estates where "the working man, the doctor and the clergyman will live in close proximity to each other". [9] From 1970s and onwards [ edit ] Over the course of this month, we visit four estates, each symbolising a different era of council housebuilding. We also take a look at whether new-found financial freedom for local authorities could be the catalyst for a new generation of estates.