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Social homes are good for us!
Social homes: for thriving communities and safer streets Not having a secure place to call home creates all types of instability. Not just for us…
Empty homes: the complete solution or just part of the package?
Empty homes: there are a lot of them, right? In the middle of a housing emergency, it’s indefensible that so many homes remain unoccupied, right?…
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Let's hear it for our volunteers
National Volunteers’ Week 2019 is coming to an end and here at Shelter, it’s been all about celebrating the contribution
WELLcome Home: giving patients somewhere to recover
Funded by the Big Lottery’s Help Through Crisis scheme and in partnership with Birmingham Mind, our WELLcome Home services provide
A recipe for social housebuilding
With more than 270,000 people currently experiencing homelessness in England, we’re undoubtedly seeing the impact of 40 years of failure in housing policy. At the same time, house prices are far out of reach, leaving many young families trapped in expensive and insecure private rentals.
This is why, throughout 2018, Shelter led a Big Conversation to investigate what’s going wrong. We sought the views of the public, experts and social and private renters. Their input was analysed by an independent … Read more
Benefit cap: 'undoubtedly harsh' yet not unlawfully discriminatory
Today, the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the household benefit cap is not achieving its stated aims and is inflicting