There was a bit of a twitter spat this week between a couple of Inside Housing journalists and a few SHOUT supporters about the use of the word “subsidy”. You can read it here.
In a nutshell the journalists were arguing that £4.5 billion of grant paid to housing providers would be viewed by the wider public as a “subsidy” and that we would face an uphill struggle to persuade them otherwise. Perhaps we will, because the writ of the Daily Mail clearly runs wide and deep, but one of the key ambitions of the SHOUT campaign is to challenge this lazy stereotyping. Continue reading