it did not help things when councils sold off there council homes for a pittance to tenants that sold them on after a couple of years,over a third of all council homes are now owned by rich landlords
If they had sold them for enough to build another house and actually done it, then it would have been a good idea.
I could have bought my nans house 25 years ago for £26,000, place is worth £350,000 now, I could have afforded the mortgage on apprentice wages back then.