Comments on: The failure of social housing in the UK and the abandonment of the the poor https://theloop.ecpr.eu/social-housing-in-the-uk-and-the-abandonment-of-poor-people/ ECPR's Political Science Blog Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Ellson https://theloop.ecpr.eu/social-housing-in-the-uk-and-the-abandonment-of-poor-people/#comment-53641 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:25:42 +0000 https://theloop.ecpr.eu/?p=25896#comment-53641 "After the second world war, Clement Attlee’s Labour government passed the Housing Act 1945, prioritising public housing as a social right for all. It thus abandoned the moralistic prioritisation of accommodation that characterised inter-war housing policy, in favour of a universalist approach."
Complete nonsense, no such Act.
Section 1 Housing Act 1949 removed the 'references to the working classes from certain provisions of the Housing Act, 1936.' Pure gesture politics that made no diffeence to any local authority's housing policy. No local authority had restricted the provision of housing to the 'working classes', and no authority changed its policies as a result of that part of the 1949 legislation.

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