Conservative cost-cutting produced Britain’s worst postwar housing failures, not leftist ideology

Evidence

Both labour and conservative governments pursued modernist projects in postwar Britain, though it is curious that the left is now largely blamed for them when it was the conservatives, by cutting corners on costs of low-income housing in particular, who perpetrated many of the worst examples of instant slums and alienated living conditions. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 467

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common postmodernist and heritage nostalgia narrative blaming social-democratic planning for tower-block failures. — connects to: Conservatives warned private failure to house the poor invited European-style public housing — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 98