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I Figure:

. . . that the 1960s in Britain saw housing in a crisis, suffering from a shortage due to high consumer demand, a rapidly aging existing housing stock, and scarcity of usable and desirable land for building.
. . . that the post-war focus on ‘slum clearance’ in housing policy that had dominated the approach to housing ‘blight’ – clearing large segments of unsuccessful housing to build anew – had produced long waiting lists for council housing, which neither New Towns nor new towers could immediately satisfy.
. . . that in 1966, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government published The Deeplish Study, examining the area of Rochdale in Greater Manchester.
. . . that it was significant for marking a turn from the policy of slum clearance, suggesting instead grants offered to the owner-occupiers of the area, and government-driven environmental improvements to make brownfield sites more livable.
. . . that it opened up the question of piecemeal solutions to what had long been considered totalising problems; what was not clear was how the production of new housing fits into this picture.