The Tackling Stigma Journey Planner
Thursday 12th of September 2024
The Stop Social Housing Stigma (SSHS) working with the University of Durham, Sheffield Hallam University, Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), Tpas and YD Consultants has launched their Tackling Stigma Journey Planner at a packed session at the Housing Community Summit on 9th September 2024 (the first session of the conference).
It is particularly appropriate that the launch of the journey planner follows on from the publication of the Grenfell report, given that social housing stigma was the most important issue raised by tenants in the Ministerial Roadshows that followed the Grenfell tragedy.
The UK Government has substantially recognised the importance of tackling Social Housing Stigma in the debate in the house on the Grenfell Tragedy and elsewhere.
The Prime Minister recognised in the Grenfell debate in the house that changes in regulation are not enough, but that there needs to be a wholesale cultural change in the social housing sector. The Prime Minister was responding to Florence Eshalomi MP who had highlighted the issue of social housing stigma in the debate. Since then the Deputy Prime Minister has referred specifically to the need to tackle social housing stigma on several occasions since the debate.
You can read the full article and download the planner here.