Ordinary houses in streets created great communities too. Ask anybody who has lived in both which they would rather have.
Before the drugs there were other anti social things went on in the flats like using the staircases and lifts as toilets,blocked refuse shutes, poor water supplies,noise pollution.
Kirkby built a few blocks that didn`t last very long on Tower Hill.
What you have to remember is people who were moved into the sort of housing normally came from
poorly built homes,