From slums to slums in three generations; housing policy and the political economy of the welfare state, 1945-2005 by Carter, H

“…<br> As, on the surface, the British housing market moved away from social democracy and towards market liberalism, its underpinnings moved in the opposite direction. Measure was piled on measure, and subsidy on subsidy, until at the end of the century the influence of government had become all-pervasive. …”