The Housing Act of 1919 made housing a national responsibility, and local authorities were given the task of developing new housing and rented accommodation where it was needed by working people. The Housing Act of 1924, passed by the UK’s first ever Labour government, gave substantial grants to local authorities in response to the acute housing shortages of those years. Local councils built a total of 1.1 million homes between 1919 and 1939.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, those people who ...
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