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Council Housing: The Last Frontier (1988x39)

: 05, 1988

Council estates are the Conservatives' next political battlefield. Once, council housing, subsidised and secure, symbolised the Welfare State. But the Government has cut back council housing and introduced the right to buy; and now the Tories plan to sell off whole estates to new style 'social landlords'. If the Tories replace council-house culture by enterprise culture, who will lose and who will gain? Vivian White reports.