Claim: Social housing has been decreasing over the last 30 years and has now been placed into the private rental market.
Fact-check: Social housing stock has fallen over the last 30 years - Full Fact
Verdict: the british social housing sector dramatically decreased between the early 1980s and the early 2010s. this was largely down to the introduction of right to buy and a drop in social house building.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2018-03-09T00:00:00