Widespread, structural and deeply felt – 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
More Homes Better Attitudes
SSHS annual report 2026
Last year, our national tenant survey showed that 70% of tenants feel stigmatised just for living in social housing – 54% because of something their landlord does. As Government and Regulator place welcome emphasis on building more social homes, it is even more necessary that everyone accepts their responsibility to ensure that social housing stigma is not a part of tenants’ lives.
Download our More Homes Better Attitudes 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
Interim report now launched - available here
- Tenants tackling stigma – a project to support tenant-led stigma reviews using the Journey Planner
- Evaluating stigma – a project to enabling tenants, landlords and other assess progress on tackling stigma
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.
Codes of Conduct
All housing associations and councils are required to consult with their tenants about renewed Codes of Conduct for their staff and others. We have produced some suggestions for codes that tenants and landlords may wish to consider
Download our Code of Conduct suggestions here
Friends of the Stop Social Housing Stigma campaign
Our Friends are organisations who have committed to donating annual funding to the campaign.
SSHS’s Privacy Notice is available here