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In the '80s, the Thatcher government created the "Right to Buy" scheme, which allowed people to purchase their homes at a discounted price after a certain period. This is resulted in much of the former stock disappearing into the private market and "council house" becoming a pejorative term.
 
Council estates today are perceived as places of [[Wretched Hive|high crime and deprivation]], populated by asylum seekers ,<ref>there is no evidence that they jump the queue at all, although their homeless status can buy them a few more points on most housing associations' scales of need</ref>, the long-term unemployed, and [[Teen Pregnancy|teenage mothers]] who got pregnant just to get a council flat. This has not been helped by the recent Shannon Matthews case, where a mother pretended her own daughter had been kidnapped (her lover was in fact holding her) in order to [[Missing White Woman Syndrome|gain publicity and money from the press]].
 
Many councils have decided the best way to solve their housing problems is with the judicious use of high explosives, demolishing tower blocks and building better houses.
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Contrast with [[Friends Rent Control]] and [[Standardized Sitcom Housing]], which more often than not are averted here.
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== Film ==
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* ''Fish Tank'' (filmed on the Mardyke.)
* ''[[Harry Brown]]'' is set on an un-named London (TOW says Elephant and Castle neighbourhood) council estate.
* ''Red Road'' is the sotry of a female CCTV operator in the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Road_:Red Road (flats) |Red Road]] housing complex in Glasgow, the tallest tower blocks in Europe when they were built.
** The director of this and the mentioned above ''Fish Tank'', Andrea Arnold, grew up in a council estate. This can also qualify as a case of [[Write What You Know]].
* ''[[Attack the Block (Film)|Attack the Block]]'' is about the residents of a council estate battling an [[Alien Invasion]].
 
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' has the Trotters live in a council tower block in Peckham.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' has several council estates, such as the Bronte and the Jasmine Allen.
* Rose Tyler in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' lived on a council estate before she started travelling in the TARDIS. Her mother, Jackie, stayed there, and Rose and The Doctor visited from time to time.
** Incidentally, in 'Tooth and Claw' she is made Dame Rose of the Powell Estate.
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' is set in Kirkholt, a suburb of Rochdale which in the show and in real life is practically synonymous with its large, notorious council estate.
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* ''[[Top Gear]]'' famously placed a Toyota Hilux on top of a tower block which was then blown up. It survived.
* ''[[Misfits]]'' is set on the Wertham Estate, a fictional area in an unnamed city (probably London, given that it's filmed there). All the main characters live in or around the council estate, and it's generally implied to be an ''extremely'' rough place to grow up in. That said, they are all petty criminals, so perhaps it's partly indicative of the social circles they move in.
{{quote| '''Jamie:''' My car's gone! It's been stolen!<br />
'''Nathan:''' (smiling) Welcome to the neighbourhood! You should've been here last week, someone got thrown off one of those towerblocks, it was carnage...<br />
'''Jamie:''' My dad was in the boot! }}
 
== Music ==
* "My old man's a dustman, he wears a dustman's hat...He wear gor-blimey trousers, And lives in a council flat!"
 
== Theater ==▼
* In ''[[Blood Brothers (Theatretheatre)|Blood Brothers]]'', the Johnstones are relocated from the terraced house of inner city Liverpool to a new council estate in the suburbs.▼
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Denmark has them, too. Usually, they're in the form of apartment blocks, not houses. Gellerup, in Aarhus, is the most infamous, being a ghetto with a high crime rate.
* In [[Stroke Country|Northern Ireland]], [[The Troubles]] has led to many council estates becoming almost exclusively populated by either a Catholic/Nationalist or Protestant/Loyalist community.
** A 2012 BBC NI documentary series profiled life on one of these estates; the mainly Loyalist Ballysally in Coleraine. While one of the programmes featured an Orange band from the neighbourhood marching on 12th12 July, the series generally avoided portraying the estate as a hotbed of sectarianism.
 
▲== Theater ==
▲* In ''[[Blood Brothers (Theatre)|Blood Brothers]]'', the Johnstones are relocated from the terraced house of inner city Liverpool to a new council estate in the suburbs.
 
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