Stigma has been attached to social housing and its tenants for decades. The Grenfell tragedy brought things to a head but only now, eight years on, are we seeing a genuine attempt to address it. But, as Neil Merrick finds out, stigma is a complex issue with no easy answers.

Stigma – it’s virtually impossible to live in social housing without experiencing it, at least some of the time.

Eight years ago, former prime minister Theresa May returned from meeting residents at a burnt-out Grenfell Tower and promised that something would be done.

But nearly a decade later, while the regulatory landscape may have shifted in favour of tenants, the stigma that surrounds much of social housing is proving extremely hard to remove.

Read the full article from HQM here.