TY - BOOK AU - Boughton,John TI - Municipal dreams: the rise and fall of council housing SN - 9781784787400 AV - HD7288.78.G7 B68 2019 U1 - 363.50941 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Verso KW - Public housing KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Low-income housing KW - Working class KW - Housing KW - Housing policy N1 - Originally published as hardback edition in 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present ER -