ABSTRACT
This important and distinctive part of the country’s housing has undergone a lot of change over the last thirty years. The change has been not so much physical – the houses and their layout – as organizational and social. The prime mover was of course the Right-To-Buy, which has meant that this housing, which was almost entirely publicly-owned in 1970, is now about 50 per cent owner-occupied or let privately. It is important to note that, as Jones and Murie’s study of RTB stresses, well over 250,000 had already been sold by 1979; that is, RTB did not start the sell-off (Jones and Murie 2005; Hills 2007).
