Housing association expansion since 1974

The role of housing associations was expanded, both quantitatively and qualitatively, from the early 1970s onwards. Before that, they had been bit-part players from the late 19th century to the second world war, incorporating model dwellings companies, the great endowed trusts, such as Cadbury, Rowntree, Peabody and Salt, followed by the ‘slum-patching’ housing societies of …