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Campaigning works!
Blog by Joanne, private renter and Shelter campaigner from Bournemouth. Joanne has recently been campaigning to end unfit housing. She wrote an open letter –…
End Income Discrimination: Live blog
This blog rounds up everything we’re doing in the fight to end housing benefit discrimination. We’re campaigning to end housing benefit discrimination – and we’re…
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Social housing: foundation or springboard?
Today, Shelter is publishing information and evidence to assist local councils as they begin to compile their ‘Tenancy Strategies’ in
Build homes to get us back to growth
Today’s dire growth figures, driven by a cliff-edge fall in construction, should be a huge worry to the Government. Lower
Why does housing matter to our well-being?
When David Cameron announced last year there was to be a national measure of well-being the first thing that sprang
We must spend less on housing
The news has been worryingly free of house price stories of late, forcing some papers to fill pages with minor