In June last year, three days after the fire at Grenfell Tower, John Boughton wrote a restrained yet furious post on his blog, Municipal Dreams, about the legacy of refusing to treat council housing with the dignity it warrants. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Grenfell Tower fire has placed council housing back at the top of the political agenda. One word Boughton keeps coming back to in his account of “the rise and fall of council housing” is “decency”. Historically, Labour tried to maintain a sense that council housing was for anyone who wanted it, a tenure as valid as ownership. • Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing is published by Verso.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2018 07:30 UTC