ABSTRACT
Of all the choices we make in our lives, those about where and how we live are among the most important and, for those who have options, certainly the most personal. The degree of choice that individuals can exercise obviously depends on their means. At one end of the scale, tenants paying an affordable rent have very little choice. Is this perhaps why so many tenants of affordable housing from the 1960s through to the end of the 1980s reacted negatively to what they were given by social landlords and architects who ‘knew what was good for them’?
