Social housing doesn't have to be bad. It has a (justified) bad reputation because of the crime and antisocial behavior it brings along, which it can do because law enforcement has completely dropped the ball. Social housing can be fine as long as any antisocial behavior is properly addressed by criminal prosecution and evicting problematic tenants.
The problem is that isn't happening in practice, and property managers themselves can't do anything about it (dissuasive measures such as CCTV no longer work from my experience, as in my building people from the "affordable" area - or their friends - are happily vandalizing doors and stealing mail in full view of the CCTV).
This is bang on the money. And exactly describes the state of my building in London, perhaps you are my neighbour. In my case, we've just been given the option to vote (cause that always works so well) to take on a private security service to do the job the police are not able - control the drug dealing and ASB that's ruining the area. It strikes me as pretty odd that since a chunk of the development is social housing, is the state essentially paying for part of the private security?
The problem is that isn't happening in practice, and property managers themselves can't do anything about it (dissuasive measures such as CCTV no longer work from my experience, as in my building people from the "affordable" area - or their friends - are happily vandalizing doors and stealing mail in full view of the CCTV).