Construction starting in the 1970s favored 9- and 16-story concrete panel municipal housing in major cities, 7-12 stories in smaller urban areas.
The chosen land was due to become municipal housing.
Peter Smith, director of municipal housing in Yonkers, called the situation in the county a "housing crisis."
Another 40% live in inadequate housing with insufficient municipal housing.
A major redevelopment of Edmonton Green including the shopping centre, and adjacent municipal housing over a wide area, started in 1999.
It is largely occupied by an extensive estate originally built as municipal housing by Newcastle City Council in the 1950s and 1960s.
A conservation area on Brook Street safeguards some terraces that represent early examples of municipal housing.
Developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by West Bromwich County Borough Council for municipal housing.
Lacking space the Council bought land from neighbouring boroughs to build municipal housing for its bombed out residents.
It has obliged local authorities to sell off council houses and has reduced the importance given to municipal housing.
