Stop Social Housing Stigma agrees with Gavin Smart, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing when he wrote in Housing Today that competence, conduct, culture and housing standards matter more than ever

And they matter more than ever for tenants.

Widespread, structural and deeply Felt – our analysis of tenant feedback to our national tenant survey on stigma - reveals that social housing stigma remains a daily reality for most people living in social housing — and that the problem is being actively reinforced by the culture and systems meant to support them.