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Making our message to
@Keir_Starmer
loud and clear from day one 💪
Right now, there's record homelessness, soaring private rents and a severe shortage of social homes.
The new government must kickstart its plan to end the housing emergency. It's the real ‘change’ people need.
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Let's make it clear: living on the streets is not a ‘lifestyle choice’ - it is a sign of failed government policy.
No one should be punished for being homeless.
Criminalising people for sleeping in tents, and making it an offence for charities to help them, is unacceptable.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4
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'cracking down on homelessness'
- vague
- makes homelessness sound like a crime
- authoritarian
'making sure everyone has a home'
- worked after WW2
- already working in Finland
- actually solves homelessness
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For every use of the hashtag
#TweetForShelter
@BritishGas
will donate £1 to Shelter - with the aim of raising £25,000. Tag your friends!
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This is deeply worrying language, that has historically been used to blame migrants for failings in society and to divide people and communities.
It's a smokescreen designed to cover up the government’s own failure to tackle the housing emergency.
#SocialHousingNotScapegoating
We are making sure the allocation of social housing is fairer for people and cracking down on rule breakers.
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Homelessness happens when housing policy fails.
The lack of social homes. Sky high private rents. Rising evictions. And the ongoing cost of living crisis.
THIS is why there’s record levels of homelessness in this country.
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@Monkeystink
@itsleepeart
Hi Lee - Sarah's right. What you've shared isn't a valid eviction notice, and you have more time than has been stated. There's more information here on our website. Alex @ Shelter
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A judge has ruled 'No DSS' rental bans are against equality laws.
#EndDSSDiscrimination
🔒
This momentous ruling sends a huge signal to letting agents and landlords that they must end these practices and do so immediately.
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BREAKING NEWS: In a landmark ruling, housing benefit discrimination has been judged unlawful and in breach of the Equality Act.⚖️
This is a huge breakthrough for the campaign to
#EndDSSDiscrimination
🔒
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For every tweet with
#TweetForShelter
@BritishGas
will donate £1 to Shelter. So get tweeting and help us raise £25K!
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📢BREAKING: the government has changed its approach and is now introducing a FULL ban on evictions, giving much-needed protection for renters at this critical time during the
#coronavirus
crisis.
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🏠 When we build social homes, we’re building better lives. We’re building stability. A brighter future.
But right now, we don’t have nearly enough of them.
We need to build good social homes again so a new generation can be proud to say: we are
#MadeInSocialHousing
.
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Sleeping in a tent on the street isn’t a choice. It’s something the government should be deeply ashamed off.
Our
#blog
on why there are scant options for those experiencing
#homelessness
and how rough sleeping is just the tip of the iceberg 👉🏿
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Just to confirm: we won’t be accepting donations (however small!) from
@dapperlaughs
for reasons
@UsVsTh3m
make clear
http://t.co/hWfS3CM3nX
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#FACTCHECK
: Homelessness is NOT going down📉❌
A toxic combination of spiralling rents, a freeze on
#HousingBenefit
and nowhere near enough social homes has led to a situation where more and more families find themselves homeless. Graph below...👀
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'We must end the prejudice against new
#socialhousing
which has afflicted our country and damaged people’s lives.'
#BigConversation
@Ed_Miliband
and Jim O’Neill make the argument that affordable housing is a national asset like any other infrastructure.
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Homelessness – both visible and hidden – is not a choice. It is the most degrading and inhumane experience.
Share our blog on the reality of the
#HousingEmergency
and its causes.
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The Stonewall uprising was lead by Black cis and trans women who faced housing issues throughout their lives. Pride is a protest and our fight is to defend the right to a safe home for everyone.
#PrideMonth
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The housing emergency boils down to people not being able to afford to live anywhere. The current scenario:
📈 Private rents are at an ALL-TIME high
📈 Evictions are rising
📈 And the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
continues
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This ^^ combined with decades of government failure to build genuinely affordable social homes is what is driving record levels of homelessness and leaving thousands of people on the streets.
The government *promised* to end rough sleeping, but is falling short of the mark.
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🚨🚨🚨
@AngelaRayner
has announced today that there will be
'meaningful targets' for social housing.
We really welcome this as we need to get to building 90,000 genuinely affordable social homes a year to end the
#HousingEmergency
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Time to get jealous, England... From today, private renters in Scotland are getting permanent tenancies and new protections from big rent increases.
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The
@LibDems
commitment to get building in their
#GE2019
manifesto is vital and lays the gauntlet down for all parties.
Their pledge to
#BuildSocialHousing
at scale would, if implemented, do more than any other single measure to end the
#HousingEmergency
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Must. Resist. Urge. To. Reply.
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📈3.1 million more social homes
💷 Saving £60billion in benefit costs
🏠 Putting social housing at the heart of solving homelessness and improving housing for us all
Join us and demand the government
#BuildSocialHousing
.
Sign our petition >>
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"Housing needs to be seen again as a national asset."
@Ed_Miliband
on why he's standing up for
#socialhousing
in
@NewStatesman
.
#BigConversation
#HousingCrisis
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This is phenomenal.
@BritishGas
have raised their donation from
#TweetForShelter
to a massive £100,000! Thank you to everyone who shared!
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Over 17 million of us are living without a safe, secure or stable home. This is a housing emergency.
📺 We're proud to share our powerful new film with you. We hope you like it and feel inspired to
#FightForHome
.
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Many thanks to the Duchess of Cambridge for inviting Sarah to be part of the congregation for Royal Carols:
#TogetherAtChristmas
.
Sarah, who has two sons aged one and 15, contacted the Shelter Helpline after she and her family became homeless.
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📽️ We've got something special to share with you...
⚽️ Fans and famous faces of the beautiful game are trading in their team’s home colours for away and third kits on Boxing Day – all in support of
#NoHomeKit
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Causes of the
#ukhousing
crisis ranked:
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15. Rank
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13. Of
12. The
11. Housing
10. Crisis
9. They
8. All
7. Contribute
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4. Complex
3. Systemic
2. Problem
1. There aren't enough affordable homes being built
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The housing market is unaffordable and unsustainable. Renters are also in turmoil - almost 2.5 million are behind or constantly struggling to pay their rent.
The government needs to take responsibility and act now.
The mortgage market turmoil right now is unprecedented.
Yet we have faced so many financial and other unprecedented situations over the last few years, arguably it is precedented.
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📢 You don't tackle homelessness through punitive policies that criminalise people for trying to stay warm.
The home secretary must educate herself on the TRUE causes of homelessness, rather than picking on people living in dangerous, deadly conditions.
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We’re extremely proud to be working with the Prince of Wales on his new homelessness prevention programme
@HomewardsUK
.
📈 With homelessness having almost DOUBLED in the last decade, it has never been more urgent to act.
#Homewards
Today we are launching
#Homewards
, a five-year programme committed to demonstrating that it's possible to end homelessness in the UK.
Having a home is more than just bricks and mortar. What does home mean to you?
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📢 Breaking news: The High Court has ruled that the DWP’s
#UniversalCredit
deductions policy is unlawful.
The legal challenge was brought by Shelter acting for four former rough sleepers & by
@HackneyLawCentr
in a similar claim.
More about the judgment:
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🚨🚨 ‘A council house revolution.’
Music to our ears. More social housing is what we need to end the housing emergency.
It's absolutely right that Deputy PM
@AngelaRayner
is putting building social homes at the top of her priority list 👏
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Thank you so much to the kind
@balconyshirts
. They're raising money for Shelter to fight homelessness with their very topical t-shirt!🕷️
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👀The feeling you get when your party has pledged to build 150,000 social homes per year...
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey is visiting Somerset today as part of his election campaign.
The rain didn't seem to get in the way as he tried out the 'Ultimate Slip N Slide' in Shepton Mallet.
He's just been told he is not allowed any more goes.
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We’ve seen more and more comments blaming people seeking safety in this country for the housing emergency.
We want to be explicitly clear; the housing emergency is caused by decades of failure to build social housing and regulate private renting.
#SocialHousingNotScapegoating
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👑 In the last
#KingsSpeech
before a
#GeneralElection
, the government has failed to grasp the scale of the housing emergency.
Decades of inaction has left us with runaway rents, rising evictions and record levels of homelessness and Ministers are blaming everyone but themselves.
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Great news: the Fitness for Human Habitation Bill has just passed its second reading! Thank you to everyone who has supported this vital Bill to protect renters' rights. 👏
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The Secretary of State has her work cut out to curb the current housing crisis.
But having grown up in a social home herself, she knows better than anyone that building decent, affordable social housing is the best way to provide the foundations on which society can thrive.
The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP
@AngelaRayner
has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
@luhc
.
She will also be Deputy Prime Minister.
#Reshuffle
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📢 Landmark court ruling confirms
#NoDSS
discrimination is unlawful.
Why does that matter? It shows landlords and letting agents that they risk legal action if they don’t stamp out these old discriminatory practices.
In just 68 seconds, our lawyer
@ArnallRose
explains.
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The temperature is starting to drop, which can be dangerous for people who are homeless and sleeping rough.
Here are ways you can help in this
#coldweather
. ❄️🌧️
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Advice on what to do to help someone on the streets this winter:
1. Many people want to be able to provide immediate help to someone they see on the streets. An offer of a hot drink or sandwich could help you find out what other type of support the person may need.
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🏠Ban evictions over winter
🏠 Direct councils to provide everyone who needs it with safe emergency accommodation
🏠Provide financial support to clear renters’ ‘COVID-arrears’
🏠Lift the benefit cap and review housing benefit rates to prevent growing rent arrears
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Today marks the seventh anniversary of the
#Grenfell
Tower fire.
We stand with
@GrenfellUnited
, the bereaved, survivors and residents to call for justice and to remember those who lost their lives.
💚 They will forever be in our hearts.
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BREAKING NEWS: The government plans to abolish no-fault evictions, representing an outstanding victory for England’s 11 million private renters. We wholeheartedly welcome this move by the government to
#EndSection21
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Can a home be considered affordable where the housing benefit doesn't meet the full rent? Today the Supreme Court ruled that no, it can’t, and subsistence benefits are not intended to pay shortfalls between housing benefit and rent.
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Support Shelter in your lunch break: 5% of every item from the Shelter range at M&S is donated to our helpline
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A HUGE thank you to the brilliant
@liamgallagher
, and everyone who came to tonight's
#ShelterPresents
.
You've raised at least £40,000 to help our work fighting homelessness. 👏🏻
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🚨 1 in 85 children in England are homeless. Official government data shows that a record 139,000 children are living in temporary accommodation.
It’s shameful.
Donate to our urgent appeal as we face rising demand for our services:
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BREAKING 🎉
Shelter adviser, Nadeem, has made the New Year Honours list for tirelessly helping people from his laptop on a rooftop, after getting stuck in Pakistan at the start of the pandemic.
Please join us in wishing him the hugest congratulations! We are SO proud⭐
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It is great to see
@KensingtonRoyal
supporting
#SocialHousing
.
The
#HousingEmergency
is ruining lives. Creating more social rent homes is the only way to end homelessness for good.
The Prince of Wales is to build and fund a £3m social housing development on his land to tackle homelessness ⬇️
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🚨 Last year 271,000 people were officially recorded as homeless in England - including 123,000 children.
That's why we're proud to be working with The Prince of Wales on his new programme
@HomewardsUK
.
Together, we can end homelessness.
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@shutupyousalad
Hi Joe, sorry to hear this, lots of caring people have sent this our way and we're here to help you! Please stay put - all court action for eviction is on hold until at least 25 June 2020 due to coronavirus. You can get detailed help from us here:
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109,000 children in Britain will be homeless this Xmas. They desperately need your help.
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@joseph_hoar
Hi Joseph - we're sure lots of brilliant people have already made you aware, but this is an invalid notice. There's lots of advice for renters/lodgers and more on our dedicated
#coronavirus
advice page.
Best of luck and thank you for everything you do.
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No child should have to wish for a home this Christmas. But more than 131,000 homeless children do.
They’ll wake up on Christmas morning in temporary accommodation. This is not a home.
Your donation could help a family find a safe place to call home:
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100,000 children in Britain homeless this Christmas. Why is this happening in 2015? We explain:
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 6 years, 1 month and 6 days since the fire at Grenfell tower, the Social Housing Regulation Act is now LAW.
This is a truly historic day for social housing residents - and the result of tireless campaigning from
@GrenfellUnited
, other activists and so many of YOU.
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'Homelessness happens to working people. It really can happen to anyone.' Francesca's story:
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📢 BREAKING: Social housing could face extinction if the government removes the requirement for developers to build it.
It makes no sense to remove section 106 agreements without a guaranteed alternative.
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This Christmas, 93,000 children will wake up homeless. You can help - support our appeal:
http://t.co/ynxZBuCSth
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Forcing councils to sell much-needed council homes doesn't sound like a good idea...
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Broadcast in 1966 and still influential today, make sure you watch
#CathyComeHome
this Sunday at 10pm on
@BBCFOUR
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The idea of extending
#RightToBuy
to housing associations couldn’t come at a worse time.
With over 1 million households stuck on social housing waiting lists in England, the government should be building more social homes, not selling them off.
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Here we are! Outside a famous door to hand in your signatures for more affordable homes.
#GE2015
📩🚪🔟
http://t.co/kBbzlOKoDR
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Our broken private renting system is overdue serious reform.
Thank you
@RobbieRinder
for speaking up for the millions of renters who don't complain about basic repairs for fear it could lose them their home.
Rob Rinder tells us about a new Shelter report revealing that over a 3rd of private renters in England are forced to live in dangerous conditions because they fear being evicted if they complain.
@RobbieRinder
is urging Boris Johnson to deliver a Renters' reform bill.
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Homeless at 12-years-old - now he’s finally getting a place to call home. Here's Richard’s story❤️
This winter, please help us give housing support to more people like Richard so they’ve got a fresh start and a chance to thrive. Give home. Give hope:
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Breaking news: 90,000 children will spend this Christmas homeless. RT and spread the word:
http://t.co/CKDR6d381e
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The message is clear - letting agents and landlords must not treat potential tenants as second-class citizens simply because they rely on benefits.
@BBCNews
on legal victories won in the battle to
#EndDSSdiscrimination
.
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Great to see
@TheGreenParty
making the
#HousingEmergency
a key election priority 👇🏾
The only way to provide people with truly affordable homes is investment in 90k social rent homes a year, with rents tied to local incomes.
#VoteForHome
#GeneralElection
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You can't always tell when someone is struggling – but 21% of English adults say a housing issue has affected their mental health in the last five years. It's
#TimetoTalk
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Hi
@Conservatives
, there is a solution to the housing emergency.
It's on our billboard in Manchester, where 73,658 families are waiting for a social home.
And they’re not alone.
#BuildSocialHousing
for over one million people waiting for social homes
#CPC21
📸Jon Parker Lee
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A truly devastating statistic
This Christmas 120,000 children in Britain will be homeless
Will you help us be there?
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@brogan_webb
@HelloSanctuary
Hi Brogan,
Some kind people sent us your tweet. I'm so sorry to hear about your mum and the situation you're now facing. I'm going to send you some information about how we could help.
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Thanks once more to each and every one of you who supported
#TweetForShelter
. It was a HUGE success with £100,000 donated by
@BritishGas
.
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@HelenLewis1980
Hi Helen, lots of people who care have put you in touch with us, and we're here to help you with this🧡. Please stay put, all court action for eviction is suspended for 90 days from 27 March 2020.
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This is a harrowing reminder of the abusive and inhumane treatment people can face when sleeping on the streets.
Nobody chooses to spend their night shivering in a sleeping bag. But record high rents and the government’s failure to build enough social homes mean more people are.
NEW: Police in Manchester say an officer’s behaviour was unacceptable and must never be repeated after video emerged of her dragging a rough sleeper across the ground and deliberately “stamping” on his stomach.
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'I’m joining
#RaiseYourRun
to help Shelter’s emergency services continue to support those facing homelessness now and in the future.'
@ManUtd
's
@branwilliams
will be clocking miles to fight housing injustice.
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A national
#HousingHustings
will take place from 6pm on Wednesday 4 December.📢💬
@Conservatives
,
@UKLabour
,
@TheGreenParty
and
@LibDems
will answer questions from people with direct experience of the
#HousingEmergency
🏠🚨
Join us and watch live online from 6pm.
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Social housing is only a 'limited resource' because the government have made it so.
They must stop hiding behind these smokescreen proposals and actually do something that will make a difference – they need to build 90,000 social homes a year to give families a stable home. 🏡⌛️
We’re setting out proposals for new social housing reforms to prevent abuse and create a fairer system
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BLOG: The High Court has ruled today that councils can lawfully accommodate people sleeping rough even if they're not eligible homelessness assistance. ⚖️
This will include rough sleepers who have No Recourse to Public Funds.
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@carolvorders
Thank you so much for sharing your experience, Carol ❤️ That's so powerful.
We'll keep fighting for home.
Sam @ Shelter
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📢🥳 AMAZING NEWS! The Chancellor has announced that housing benefit will be UNFROZEN to cover the bottom third of local rents.
With homelessness at a record high, this will be an essential lifeline to keep people in their homes.
#AutumnStatement
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Campaigner
@KwajoHousing
is doing epic work to fight for better social housing.
We caught up with him after he spoke at our event.
Here’s what he had to say ⬇️
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Rough sleeping is the most visible form of homelessness - but it only represents the very tip of an iceberg.
#FindMeAHome
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So proud of our CEO
@pollyn1
, who's been recognised in the
#NewYearsHonours
list with a CBE 🥳
“This is a wonderful recognition of the activists I work with at Shelter - and previously at
@womensaid
- who believe passionately, as I do, that change for the better is possible."
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