public housing
53,000 flats.
this year.
production
19 -
reached
the
record number of
We expect to achieve a similar performance
34.
As
more
and more.
I have already pointed out, numbers alone are no
longer the yard-stick for public services. Quality counts
The last blocks of the Mark I and II
estates, built nearly 30 years ago, will be demolished next
year.
The flats now being built are 10% larger on average
than their immediate
predecessors, and four times the size
of the old
Mark II units.
They have a full range of
set out in a pleasant and carefully
community facilities,
planned environment. Rents may need to be increased in line
with the community's
growing prosperity;
continue to be fair and affordable.
but they will
35.
In the public sector
respond
to
housing
programme, we must
the wish of more and more of our families to own
their Own homes.
More than 100,000 families are already
living in flats built under the Home Ownership Scheme and
related Private Sector Participation Scheme. By the end
of the decade, the number of flats built under these schemes
will have more than trebled to 350,000. The years ahead
the
/will
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