The 1980-1980: The Impact Of The Housing Act 1980

The housing Act 1980 was an act of parliament passed by the parliament of the United kingdom that gave five million council houses tenants in England the right to buy their houses from their local authority (The guardian 2015) This social policy has an impact on social workers in 21st century. Most of the homeless are lone parents, low income, young people, old age, unemployment disabled and ill health these are the group of people who are more likely to be supported by a social worker. But due to the housing act most of the social housing are private rented and expensive these group of people are on the list of social housing but they are not being provided with housing as there is a shortage of social housing. Lone parents are ten times