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Inside Housing - Attitudes to race and immigration in social housing

This survey is being carried out as part of research by Inside Housing. All survey responses will be kept anonymous, unless with express permission.


If you have any questions, please contact kath.swindells@insidehousing.co.uk
1.What sort of housing organisation do you work for?(Required.)
2.What region do you work in?(Required.)
3.Job title(Required.)
4.Job level(Required.)
5.Is your role front-facing, ie. do you regularly interact with residents/customers/service users?(Required.)
To what extent to you agree with the following statements:
6.I have encountered - online - factually inaccurate information along the lines of ‘all social housing going to immigrants.’
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
7.I have encountered - in real life - factually inaccurate information along the lines of ‘all social housing going to immigrants.’
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
8.I have felt discrimination, prejudice or negative sentiment from tenants/residents/clients at my organisation because of my ethnicity, race, immigrant background or religion, in the past 12 months
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
9.I have felt discrimination, prejudice or negative sentiment from colleagues at my organisation because of my ethnicity, race, immigrant background or religion, in the past 12 months
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
10.My organisation has done a lot to support staff who are Black, Asian and minority ethnic, in the past 12 months
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
11.My organisation should have done more to support staff who are Black, Asian and minority ethnic, in the past 12 months
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
12.I have felt fear because of my ethnicity, race, immigrant background or religion, in the past 12 months
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree not disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
Open-answer questions
The following, open-ended questions are optional. Quotes from these may be used in reporting, but the respondent and organisation will be anonymised.
13.How has far-right and anti-immigrant sentiment affected your work in the past 12 months?
14.How has your organisation addressed far-right and anti-immigrant sentiment in the past 12 months (either internally or publicly)?
15.Is this something you have come into contact with in your personal life? If so, how has it impacted you?
16.Is there anything else you would like to share?
Demographic questions
17.Gender(Required.)
18.Ethnicity(Required.)
19.Were you born in the UK?(Required.)
20.Age(Required.)