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On an often rainy and gloomy island in the North Atlantic that once held an empire on which the sun never set, there was once a truly astounding amount of home building.
During the 1968 calendar year, the United Kingdom built 425,800 new homes.
Of those, 190,700 were built by local authorities, 9,100 were constructed by housing associations, and 226,100 were built by the private sector.
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Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.
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