I am very much in favour of social, HA and private housing being mixed. But fuck me, some of the people in social and HA make me question that sometimes.
I am a resident director of a large development so I have oversight of how it's all being managed and any issues which come up. There have been a hugely disproportionate number of problems with the HA and social residents, including fly tipping, anti-social behaviour, vandalism, dumped cars and rubbish left in communal areas. Part of what I do is having to meet regularly with the management company and the HA officer, and they have both said that these issues are extremely common. I've had to deal with complaints about screaming rows, excessive noise, violence, threats, intimidation of other residents, and the police repeatedly being called out over the behaviour of some HA and social residents. I also saw it when I lived there so I know it's not fabricated.
I know it's not considered to be acceptable to point these things out, and I will doubtless get flamed for this as everyone scrambles to find examples of where private residents have done the same stuff. And yes, I know there are many social and HA tenants who are lovely and want a proper community.
Despite all the above I still believe that mixed housing is the best way. I categorically do not want to see ghettos of council housing. I just wish I didn't have to question that belief in my own mind every time I see the reports about the residents with dumped furniture and cars outside their houses who claim 'someone must of come and done it last night, we never saw nothing' which costs every resident money to remove it. Or the single mother who is too afraid to park in her own space because the social housing tenants keep blocking her in and threatening to cut her if she asks them to move.