Housing Left and Right

The politics of housing are not all they seem. We naturally associate owner occupation with the Conservatives and council housing with Labour. However it was the 1951?64 Conservative governments that managed much of the council housing boom. By contrast, senior Labour politicians were making supportive noises towards owner occupation as early as the 1940s and the Blair government has announced an expansion of council housing transfers into the private sector. Housing Left and Right draws out the differences and similarities between Conservative and Labour policies and asks whether we are on the threshold of a new paradigm in housing policy.King, Peter is the author of 'Housing Left and Right', published 2005 under ISBN 9780907845690 and ISBN 090784569X.