ABSTRACT
147The appalling conditions of derelict 19th-century street housing; the impersonal local authorities whose institutional tenement blocks were almost impossible to move out of; and, in London at least, the takeover of inner-city land by big business so that new cheap housing could no longer be built – these factors caused many community groups in the 1970s and 80s to fight for the right to get homes built, against all the odds. The Weller Streets Co-op in Toxteth, Liverpool, is just one example.
