The UK's social housing scheme was/is a stonking success, right up until about 1980. it completely reset the minimum standard of housing from slums to actually decent. It wasn't all a success, skelmersdale and thamesmede sucked balls.

The problem with the uk's social housing came as follows:

1) the change from needing a job to have a council house to being a dumping ground for troubled families without support 2) removing the ability of councils to fund new housing 3) overly complex centralised funding of repairs and upkeep 4) selling off housing and then taking the money away that was needed to replace them

Thats very different to the "projects"