Mike Crump and Collette Eden attended the launch of a new campaign to tackle social housing stigma which was held at Parliament on Monday (May 19) - hosted by Ben Coleman MP and the Stop the Social Housing Stigma Group.
The new campaign has launched with the aim of tackling the stigma surrounding social housing, featuring a specially developed journey planner to help tenants and landlords work together on addressing the issue.
The new campaign has launched with the aim of tackling the stigma surrounding social housing, featuring a specially developed journey planner to help tenants and landlords work together on addressing the issue.
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00:00I've been asked to talk about the stigma of social housing and as a matter of fact it's
00:09a running joke in my family that my mother was brought up in a council house and the
00:14ribbon we've given her over the years is unbelievable because my dad was posh you see
00:17because he was brought up in a private home. Now there's nothing wrong with council houses
00:23or housing associations, social housing is extremely important. I used to live on a farm
00:30I've had mortgages, I've rented houses myself until everything went seriously pear-sharked
00:35in my life. Social housing has been very important in terms of helping me with my recovery from
00:43serious depression etc etc and over the next 20 to 30 years or so because of what's happening
00:50with property prices social housing is going to become more and more important not less
00:55important and you know there is nothing wrong with living within social housing and I had
01:04a heavy mortgage years ago I don't want another one again and I'll tell you what this housing
01:09association is stuck with me for life.