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    it requires a society with a sense of decency and solidarity.

    I have become, sadly, a pessimist.

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        I think even the US had its moments. Social Security, the “Great Society” programs, ACA (to an extent). But attitudes towards a more humane, equal and inclusive society seem to have drastically hardened on the right.

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          Yes, these “moments” have been everywhere, at least in Europe and North America in the last 80 years. I argue that economic growth wouldn’t have been possible after the Second World War without a proper social policy that includes, but obviously goes far beyond housing.

          Recently I stumbled upon a very good article which describes the changes in the UK, but I argue that the principles apply to all Western countries.

          Successive governments [in the UK] have chosen to mar the childhoods of millions by selling off social homes and failing to replace them. 2 million social homes have disappeared since I [the author] was born into one, with no hint of this government wanting to build them back at the scale needed, or to fund councils and housing associations to keep those left in good repair.