In 1991, I remember a local authority home where there were six men to a bedroom and 12 sharing a bathroom.
"I don't think there was any lack of care in Stoke Heath for this boy, but I would have much rather he had been in a local authority home".
Informal care cost was estimated using the unit cost of a local authority home care worker as a proxy value [24].
STCs may be cheaper than the secure local authority homes, but they are still phenomenally expensive.
In London alone, Tesco was set to build more than 800 homes last year, close to 5% of all non-local authority homes being built in the capital.
Cars would be pushed out from the centre of the avenue to two lanes either side, and up to 7,000 homes, including student flats, local authority homes and private housing, would be built on a parallel strip.
Since the right-to-buy discount was increased in 2012, 5,944 local authority homes were sold in the first year and only 3,634 replacement homes are complete or on their way.
Under the Conservative plans, housing association tenants were to be given the right to buy their home at a discount of up to £100,000, in line with existing right-to-buy arrangements for local authority homes.
Mark Weeks National coordinator, Defend Council Housing By mobilising council tenants to vote against the policy, Weeks has been successful in wrecking the government's plan to sell off local authority homes to housing associations.
The homelessness charity Shelter has calculated that 23,500 local authority homes will need to be sold a year to fund right to buy, a third of all council houses that become vacant.
At the 16-mile mark on Westferry Road in the shadow of Canary Wharf, former local authority homes are now crowded around with new developments serving people working in the numerous banking and accountancy headquarters.
