Oh God bless Mrs Thatcher. Allowing the Hoypoloi to own their own piece of crumbling, prefab heaven so they can feel better about themselves!
She knew exactly what she was doing, if she didn't then RTB would still be active now. She got rid of crumbling housing stock, got them repaired, got a lot of traditionally debt free people in hock to the banks, diminished and ultimately didn't replace the social housing stock and caused at least two housing bubbles, misdirected the economy, moved public money into private hands via housing benefit payments to thieving landlords, facilitated a rise in nasty right wing myths leading to the poor resenting the even poorer and ultimately she planted the seed for the social cleansing that has started in London and will eventually spread.