England Has Five Million Fewer Council Houses Today Than In 1979.

·         In 2020, the latest published figures, England has just 1.6m council houses and FIVE MILLION FEWER than in 1979. Just 1 in every 17 of England’s 24.6m houses is a council house when it was 1 in 3 in 1979.

·         1979 saw England have 0.35m housing association properties making a social rented sector total of 6.91m. By 2020 England had 2.5m HA properties making a SRS total of 4.08m.

·         1979 was the high point of council housing with a record 6.6 million which was 32% of 20,826 houses in all of England and 1 in 3 of all houses in England was a council house.

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