Don't really have time or space for a big thread on it but just wanted to bring together these two things really. It's the same thing but.

1) #ukhousing was one of the biggest adopters of 'liberal austerity' myths which have 1/n https://twitter.com/HRRBFireSafety/status/1387481025371152385

... cropped up in my timeline with stuff from @jrf_uk, who have just spent a lot of time tearing apart and rebuilding their own culture to ensure that what they do is alongside people with lived experience. 2/n https://twitter.com/MartinAtTheEdge/status/1386998055472300036

The #ukhousing sector is still absolutely riddled with problematic idea about deservedness. Many organisations went full-guns-blazing into the conditionality culture championed with the failed cuts to social security billeted as 'welfare reform'. Too many are still there. 3/n

The sector remains too proud of all the work it does, at a cost to tenants through rent, but free to government, to replace work the DWP should be doing to find people jobs. 4/n

The framing of this stuff, paid work = virtue and anything else = bad for individuals and society, glosses over the fact that for most landlords it's just a way of making sure the rent is paid, even though... 5/n

a lot of it is *still* portrayed as heroic housing workers saving people from their own lazy vices and tendency to make poor decisions. 6/n

Fair to say I am partly grinding my teeth about this thanks to the situation for unpaid carers having not just not changed, but having got a lot worse through the pandemic, but all the jobsearch crap is already back at fever pitch at a lot of orgs' twitter accounts. 7/n

For context, one of the few not-care things I kept in touch with last year is a project amongst landlords to address stigma, including within. I missed the last meeting because I am disorganised and 8/n

I am also doing a thing with JRF which is why I am more aware of the flavour of things coming from there, around how to talk about housing in order to prompt policy change (with a subset of stuff about social housing) BUT 9/n

my lived experience is that it's a bit incongruous that the JRF has managed an entire revamp of its internal culture and way of working (without even changing the logo) and I can't think of an equivalent bit of soul-searching in the housing sector yet. 10/10

oh, and I don't want to own a home, largely because proper social-rent homes are a much better way to live and also we have a folding table and chairs from John Lewis.

Oh boy, I think that might be where the curtains came from, too.