The UK is in the midst of a housing crisis due to the bad housing policy but the country from Fifty years had a fairly stable housing system and the need for secure, affordable housing of the middle class was largely get through homeownership and for the working class through social housing. But a reliance on the private market to deliver homes since the 1980s and the loss of millions of social homes has destroyed this system. The  Act was passed by Addison and introduced the notion of councils building social housing on a large scale 5.5 million social homes were built but the trend has slowed massively since the 1980s. In 2018-19, only 6,287 social rented homes were built, and to decimate of social housing has led to newly homeless families outnumbering new social homes by 8 to 1.2  and they pushed more families into a private rented sector which are insecure, unaffordable, and unsafe and over a million families are stuck on waiting lists for social housing.

Homes for social rent were built at scale by the government to meet the need for affordable, secure housing for less well-off people. For much of the period between 1948 and 1978, local authorities were responsible for building more than 90,000 homes a year. In 1979, local authorities owned almost 5.2 million homes. However, by the 1990s the numbers of homes built by councils had declined to under 15,000. And now local authorities retain just under 1.6 million homes, with millions of homes lost through Right to Buy, and others transferred to housing associations. We now rely on two primary means of delivering affordable housing: the planning system, and housing associations. But the ‘planning gain’ method – requiring developers to build some affordable homes as a requirement of their planning permission – has failed to deliver homes at anything like the scale we need, and often developers use loopholes to evade the requirements at all. And the amount that housing associations and councils can deliver is in large part determined by how much central government grant is available, which successive governments have reduced in recent decades to levels significantly down on the era of largescale social housebuilding.