Measures to decontrol private rents and direct local authorities towards slum clearance made 1957 a key turning point in UK housing policy. What followed speeded the decline of private renting and introduced a new phase of council house building that included system built multi-storey housing. Later revisions and reversals in housing policy in the period to 1979 indicated a loss of consensus. A series of policy changes particularly affected council rents and subsidies; there was a switch from slum clearance to urban renewal; and rent regulation replaced decontrol. Both council housing and owner occupation grew through new investment and transfers from a declining private rented sector but local planning and green belt policies adversely affected municipal ambitions to meet housing needs outside their boundaries. The social and spatial pattern of growth of owner occupation and council housing both changed with greater financial and political support for owner occupation. The changing social role of different tenures is discussed with reference to polarisation between tenures and residualisation of council housing. The Chapter ends with reference to new rights for some homeless households, measurable reductions in unhealthy housing and unfinished housing policy business in 1979.