What are you on about now? All governments since the 60's have failed. Council house construction boomed after WW2 but it became more and more expensive to build, maintain, repair and collect revenues for them (tax) over time, until eventually the cost burden of providing "affordable" social housing became not so affordable after all and promised huge losses. Local and national governments of all stripes needed the foresight to plan a system and budget for long-term adequate housing much better than they did, especially from the late 1990's, when net immigration was allowed to increase drastically from the previous steady low average rate.