Policy Library
Policy, research and good practice work forms a major part of Shelter's efforts to address and find solutions for homelessness and housing issues.
Briefing: Putting on the stabilisers - Protecting private renters from unaffordable rent rises
The Renters Reform Bill offers a crucial opportunity to tackle a major cause of instability in England’s private rented sector, the lack of regulation of rent increases. Sensible measures to stabilise the rate at which rents increase during a tenancy would balance tenants’ right to a secure, affordable and stable home with landlords’ need to reasonably cover cost increases.
Published: 25 March 2024
Briefing note: Managed migration to universal credit
Shelter briefing on the managed migration of people claiming legacy housing benefit to universal credit in 2024.
Published: 21 March 2024
Briefing: Social homes – building thriving communities and safer streets
Investment in a new generation of social rent homes is an investment in our communities and in crime prevention. The delivery of 90,000 social rent homes a year will provide access to safe, well-managed and genuinely affordable homes, helping to build stable, supportive neighbourhoods which offer the security and autonomy for communities to flourish.
Published: 20 March 2024
Research: The economic impact of building social housing
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has been commissioned by Shelter and the National Housing Federation (NHF) to assess the economic and social impacts of building 90,000 social homes.
Published: 27 February 2024
Social housing - a prescription for better health and wellbeing
In the first briefing of a general election focused series we explore the link between housing and health. How homelessness kills. How half of private renters are worried about paying the rent. And how poor housing conditions cost the NHS £1.4 billion a year.
Published: 14 February 2024
Homelessness in England 2023
A research report documenting the scale of homelessness in England in 2023
Published: 14 December 2023
Evidence submission: Shelter submission for the Autumn Statement 2023
Shelter calls on the Chancellor to end the damaging housing benefit freeze which is driving record homelessness.
Published: 1 November 2023
Briefing: Second Reading of the Renters (Reform) Bill
Shelter strongly welcomes second reading of this long-awaited bill, and is campaigning to ensure that it is passed swiftly and is robust enough to provide private renters with genuine security and safety in their homes, as well as proper protection against discrimination.
Published: 20 October 2023
The Way Home: A Manifesto to Rebuild Our Broken Housing System
Shelter's manifesto for the 2024 general election
Published: 20 September 2023
1 in 4 voters are affected by the housing emergency
Shelter’s new research, conducted by Opinium, finds that 1 in 4 voters are affected by the housing emergency. This research is taken from 1,804 adults in England.
Published: 20 September 2023