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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.
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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.
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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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