User:John15CM/History of the housing stock of united kinkdom
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The History of Housing in the United Kingdom(1875-present) demonstrates the importance of the regulatory environment and the tax/subsidy system, in determining the type, quality, and number of dwellings built. In the UK. Since 1875 there have been three distinct eras. In the era of laissez faire(ended 1914), the Public Health Act 1875 defined the regulatory environment. Mansions were built for the wealthy. Landlords invested in building dwellings for the working class, which became slums. In era of protectionism(1918-1939) property taxes on the great landowners made land cheap, resulting in newbuild housing that was affordable to the middle middle class who became owner occupiers. Local government designed and build, dwellings which were let to the working class. In the era the Keynes-Beveridge consensus(1945-1979) the state eliminated housing want. The slums were cleared and replaced by good quality dwellings, mainly semidetached houses on council estates. For the working class councils replaced private landlords. Subsidies for newbuild made bungalows affordable to the lower middle class who became owner/occupiers. In the era of the Thatcher-Blair consensus council hosing was privatized, and subsidies to help owner/occupiers ended. Construction of new dwellings halved, a housing crises developed, and overcrowded dwellings became a problem. Real house prices and rents quadrupled, owner occupation declined, and the private landlord returned.
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