Updates, insights and impact
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Shelter successfully represents a woman with EU pre-settled status who was denied homelessness assistance
Shelter’s expert Strategic Litigation team has recently been involved in an important case clarifying people’s rights when homeless.
Updates and impact
Published: 24 May 2024
Author: Robert Brown
Record number of 145,800 children’s lives blighted by homelessness: housing must be a priority in the general election
We’ve reached yet another appalling milestone in the housing emergency. As thousands of children in England start their exams, government data published yesterday shows that a record-breaking 145,800 ...
Research and insights
Published: 1 May 2024
Author: Ella Nuttall
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 as individuals and our families, but for the streets, ...
Research and insights
Published: 30 April 2024
Author: Isabella Burton
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? If we brought these all back into use, we’d solve the ...
Research and insights
Published: 24 April 2024
Author: Sam Bloomer
Social homes improve lives: a Shelter and IKEA research partnership
Shelter is embarking on a groundbreaking longitudinal research project, funded by IKEA, looking at the impact of moving into a social rent home. This research is a pivotal step in our long-term partne...
Research and insights
Published: 19 April 2024
Author: Hannah Rich
Prejudice in practice: renting with a disability
This blog was co-written by Dave Lockyer, a Shelter Renting Champion who shares his experience of discrimination in the private rented sector. Discrimination has no home in the private rented sector. ...
Updates and impact
Published: 15 March 2024
Author: Jenny Lamb
Shelter legal win protects disability benefits for people moving home
An important ruling at the Upper Tribunal held that people with severe disabilities should not face losing benefits just because they move from one type of home to another. Shelter legal adviser Ellio...
Updates and impact
Published: 12 March 2024
Author: Elliot Kent
International Women’s Day 2024: vote so women can have homes
With a general election looming, political parties must show they’re serious about tackling the growing housing emergency to win crucial votes. Especially from women whose votes are more likely to be ...
Research and insights
Published: 8 March 2024
Author: Deborah Garvie
Sharp increase in rough sleeping and child homelessness: the next government cannot afford to ignore the housing emergency
New government data shows that rough sleeping has continued to increase, and there’s a record number of households in temporary accommodation as the housing emergency deepens. Another sharp increase i...
Research and insights
Published: 29 February 2024
Author: Ella Nuttall
Shelter and HSBC UK research: 40% of people fear housing pressures will get worse in 2024
The majority of adults have experienced a housing pressure in the last year New research from Shelter and HSBC UK, conducted by YouGov, released today reveals the crushing weight of the housing emerge...
Research and insights
Published: 26 January 2024
Author: Shelter