In the year that housing subsidy was finally abolished, income tax was reduced from six to five shillings in the pound.

In fact, less than 25% of people who qualify for a housing subsidy receive one.

A number of these factors include entitlement income, a housing subsidy, and contact with a social worker.

It also restructured the housing subsidy system such that the borrowing charges of local authorities of individual local authorities would be pegged to 4% interest.

The graduate student community states that they preferred keeping the apartments where they were and did not support the housing subsidy idea.