If you wouldn't mind providing some cultural translation for some Americans, could you bring me up to speed on what is going on with your apartment? My general impression is that the UK's low cost housing is done not by the national government, but by individual town / city councils, who build council estates / flats that then go out at concessional rents / prices; or that just the maximum rent is controlled? Or is it just that your town has decided your current apartment building is going to get torn down for some kind of civic improvement and they have to give you an alternative?