How to support our Vote for Home campaign
Everything you need to help us campaign to make ending the housing emergency a top priority this general election.
What is the Vote for Home campaign?
If we want a fairer renting system and the social homes we need, we must use our power as voters to force politicians to take housing seriously this general election.
We need your help to do this and there are lots of ways you can support our campaign.
Get involved online
Sign our open letter
Help us reach 50,000 signatures – tell all party leaders that our votes will only be won with a promise to end the housing emergency.
Sign our letterSpread the word on social media
We have four graphics with different messages on them. Choose the one that you want to shout about the most and post it on your social media channels.
Learn from our team
Join an online welcome call
If you are not sure where to start or would like to know more, join an online welcome call and speak to a member of our Campaigns team.
Join a welcome callJoin a live online training session
Our online sessions are designed to give you the confidence and skills you need to campaign effectively and make housing an election priority in your local area.
Join our online trainingCampaign in your community
If you’d like to start campaigning in your local area, we have everything you need.
Front window poster
Put up this poster at home to get the attention of your local candidates. Ask your neighbours if they’d like a poster too.
'I'm voting for home' front window poster [PDF 3.9MB]
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Community poster
Ask local businesses, libraries and community centres if they will put up a poster to help raise awareness of the campaign.
'Vote for Home' community poster [PDF, 2.9MB]
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Resources to help you
Download this card and keep it by your front door so you can ask your local candidates the right questions about how they will fix the housing emergency.
Keep in touch
Want to be the first to hear about any new campaign developments and how you can help in your local area? Sign up to be a housing campaigns HERO and receive monthly text updates from us.
Meet your local candidates in person
Meeting your local candidates is a great way to get them to listen and take notice. You can tell them face to face what effect the housing emergency is having in your area and what you want them to do about it if they win the election.
Help and support to do this
Join our live online training sessions
We will be running sessions on how to lobby your local candidates in the community, including meeting them in person.
Join our online trainingDownload our guide
We also have a handy guide, which is packed full of useful tips and advice.
Get in touch
Please email us at campaigns@shelter.org.uk if you have any questions or would like further support.
How Amanda campaigned for real change
I was homeless living in temporary accommodation, and Shelter supported me into a proper home. I didn’t want anyone else to go through what I did, so I campaigned with Shelter. I handed in a petition and spoke to my MP. As a result, the government has committed to unfreezing housing benefit from April 2024 to help stop rising homelessness.
- Amanda
Our manifesto
The Way Home, our manifesto, sets out the solutions to the housing emergency. It was created by people with direct experience of housing problems from across the country, and it asks party leaders to:
build a new generation of social homes
make renting affordable
raise standards in rented homes
strengthen housing rights
Use our manifesto to build your knowledge so that you can campaign effectively and talk with confidence about the solutions to the housing emergency.
Read our full manifesto [PDF, 15MB]
Read the shorter executive summary [PDF, 7MB]
Contact us
If you have any questions, please get in touch and we will be happy to help. Don't forget to also let us know your local area. This is so we can make sure we get the right person to reply to your query.
Email us
Other ways to help
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