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Welcome to Stop Social Housing Stigma, a tenant-led campaign that celebrates the value of social housing and its residents, breaking down stereotypes and challenging the stigma that surrounds it

NB.  Nic Bliss – SSHS Campaign Director – is out of action for a routine medical procedure until the end of May.  e-mails sent will be responded to in June.
If anyone urgently wishes to contact the campaign in May, please get in touch with SSHS Chair Lynne Brosnan at [email protected]

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Widespread, structural, deeply felt

The journey planner

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Widespread, structural and deeply felt – the report from our national tenant stigma survey

Our final report from our national tenant survey on stigma – Widespread, structural and deeply felt – is available here.  We thank the 1,643 tenants who responded.

Download Widespread, Structural and Deeply Felt here

Stop Social Housing Stigma projects 2026

Stop Social Housing Stigma will be launching three national projects aimed at tackling stigma:

  • Do you live in a stock? A project exploring the use of language in the social housing sector
  • Tenants tackling stigma – a project to support tenant-led stigma reviews using the Journey Planner
  • Stigma Progress Checks – a project to enabling tenants, landlords and other assess progress on tackling stigma
For further information click here

Teaser video Tackling Stigma in Social Housing

We spoke with social housing tenants, as well as academics and practitioners, to hear their stories and shed light on the stigma they’ve experienced. The aim is to raise awareness of this stigma and explore ways to challenge it across both society and the housing sector.

Friends of the Stop Social Housing Stigma campaign

Our Friends are organisations who have committed to donating annual funding to the campaign.

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