How many people, even in the Labour Party, have noticed the dog that didn't bark? On what has been one of the major parts of the party's social policy for decades, the government has gone very quiet.

The hush that has fallen is shown by two statistics: in 1953, local councils built nearly a quarter of a million council homes. Last year, they built a mere 250. The building of council homes has gone from being a major part of British life and politics, the stuff of headlines and passionate national debates, to a virtual irrelevance - a trifling thousandth of what it once was.

This is the beginning of an article I have written for The First Post. The full article can be found here.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Housing

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