Social housing - unfair reputation

When I bought my house I didn't realise that I was the middle house between all the privately owned homes and the social housing.

I know not all people in social housing are bad neighbours but in my street they are the worst neighbours by far. Park in my drive, despite being told it's mine and not to do so (it's not directly outside my house but numbered). Constant parties and loud music blaring even midweek at silly hours. Let's their wild kids run riot, playing knock door run and kicking footballs at cars (however amazes me how it's never near their cars!)

I genuinely hate them. And am even more pissed off to see they have the most expensive cars in the road and don't come at me with I don't know their finances and they could be leased/on finance.

Problem is it only takes one bad tenant and you’ve no chance pretty much of them moving unless they choose too as social housing is bloody hard to evict from. Though often you end up of a group of bad ones as the good ones get their houses straight on house swapper before the issues are too known.

Were as private the landlord often gets fed up of complaints and serves notice then the council pick up the pieces.

obviously shit owners too and you can’t get rid of them either but much less likely to have a whole group of shit owners.

I grew up in social housing and most people are lovely. The problem is one bad tenant can cause issues for lots of people. Most of the flats were normal families but one was used to house a series of short term drug addicts. That block reeked of urine, always abandoned mattress/ sofas outside. I assume drugs= a degree of incontinence.

Got a house behind us that’s let by a HA, that’s just become void. All but one tenant that has been in there has been a pain in the arse.

I’ve not got high hopes for the next lot.

Depends where you live. I live in SH no problems at all.

There is always a minority of people that ruin it. Round here they are messy and loud and rude and park everywhere without a care of anyone else.

YABU.

Most the social housing tenants are lovely but then it's the not so lovely ones that need a roof over their heads that spoil it for others.

In our quiet village they built some 1 bed flats in the newbuild estate which were social housing. One was given to someone who was a junkie. He was a lazy junkie as he mostly broke into houses within a 100 metre radius. He went back to prison. Next came the registered paedophile who had been released from prison. After that came a couple with a baby and the windows permanently open due to their weed smoking. Not sure what happened to them... we now seem to have a guy with MH issues that spends all day walking round and shouts at people.

And that's just ONE property.

So you can see where the reputation comes from...

The odd social housing pepperpotted around new build estates will have much less issues than the old fashioned sink estates. That’s why all developers have to build a % of affordable properties.

We also have just moved into a new build and are next to social housing. Everyday we have issues with them, inconsiderate parking, noise, drugs, throwing litter on our garden..I wasn't concerned when buying by social housing but would not do it again..I'm aware not all are like this and we are just unfortunate.

I think for many people in social housing the stigma is unfair, but like most groups there’s always a significant minority that ruin it. If you look at statistics like crime rates, they tend to be higher in areas of social housing.