Britain needs new council houses – not just musicals about them | Lynsey Hanley

A new production celebrates a famous Sheffield estate but glosses over dire levels of inequality and housing waiting lists

Social housing was once called council housing. Instead of its tenants being treated as burdens and second-class residents who don’t deserve to share the same spaces as their better-off peers – as children living in the “affordable” part of a south London luxury block found out last week – their homes were often assigned the best architects money could buy.

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