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Spring Statement: the housing announcements you weren’t supposed to see
Last week’s Spring Statement didn’t deliver much for housing. The Chancellor’s announcement that £3 billion worth of government guarantees for loans to build 30,000 ‘affordable’ homes…
How I challenged DSS discrimination
A version of this blog was published on Huffington Post UK. Guest blog by Philippa Lalor, a Shelter supporter and client Almost one in three…
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Grenfell: Ministers can and must regulate to protect social tenants
Today marks 21 long months since the devastating fire in Grenfell Tower – the biggest housing tragedy in our history. Yet still, we
International Women’s Day: we must see an end to women in housing poverty
International Women’s Day is a brilliant celebration of the women we all know and look up to, including our women
Two big wins in the fight against DSS discrimination
Over the last year we’ve been campaigning hard to end the discrimination people on housing benefit (also known as DSS)
IFS: housing benefit bill signal of failed social housing policy. But we need it more than ever to hold back homelessness
Yesterday’s article by the Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), Paul Johnson, made a very welcome contribution to the growing debate that increasing social house building is the key to