In the 1960s, the Greater London City Council was focused on creating more homes in the city. They focused on buying land from current landlords, and built modern apartment buildings to accomplish their task. In 20 years, their ownership of homes more than doubled, and they did this by building 400 high rise apartment blocks. These new homes made it easier and more afforadlbe to live in the city, and also took vasts amounts of tenants, out of landlord control. However, the poor still struggled breaking out of their inner city renting, and simply couldn't gain enough capital to leave their endless cycle of being stuck under landlords. A change of tastes also happened around this same period. Old homes made in Georgian and Victorian styles became more popular and started to attract new owners. The tensions between landlords and tenants also rose during these times. Landlords where evicting their tenants after realising the rising value of their properties. The city of London had mostly been a city dominated by renters, however, more people decided to become home owners during the same period. With more government owned housing, it caused the middle class renters to be able to rise up in social standing, while the upperclass landlords became less powerful with more and more tenants leaving for the newer government owned appartments. This was the cause of the class tensions during this time.     

The city of London has changed in the way we see government owned housing. In Bleak House we see that Captain Hawdon rents a room from Mr.Krook, which would be fairly common back then. However, in modern London, many renters have changed who they rent from, instead of renting from individuals they now rent from the government. This has eased the tenant, landlord tension by simply getting rid of the landlord by replacing them with the government. While some private landlords still esist, they simply to do not esist in the same numbers that they used too.  

Ross, Cathy, and John Clark. London: The Illustrated History. Penguin Books, 2011.