The government could unlock billions for council housing with one accounting change. Learn how public investment rules currently choke off the scale of social house building we need: england.shelter.org.uk/what_we_do/u...

How to increase investment in council housing and capitalise on the economic benefits - Shelter England

Learn why the government needs to reform its fiscal rules in order to ramp up investment in local and affordable social homes.

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A 'gamechanger' for renters? It could be, if properly implemented. The database must be made publicly available to renters as soon as possible so they have clarity on their landlord's track record and the information they need to challenge unfair rent hikes. 📰 www.independent.co.uk/money/englan...

Rollout dates across England for new landlord registration service set out

Charity Shelter said if properly implemented, the database could be a ‘gamechanger’.

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Ever wondered why the government is yet to provide the necessary investment to build enough social homes to end the housing emergency? Learn more in this blog where we delve deeper: redbrickblog.co.uk/2026/09/econ...

How to increase investment in council housing and capitalise on the economic benefits - Red Brick

Shelter's Sam Bloomer argues the Government’s ambition for a new era of council housebuilding requires reform of the UK's fiscal framework.

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The PM's aim to get everyone sleeping rough off the streets by this Christmas is the kind of bold leadership we can get behind. The signs are encouraging. At this Autumn’s budget, we need that same unwavering ambition to getting councils building homes for their communities. shltr.org.uk/jfEdE

PM’s drive to end rough sleeping must include building council homes - Shelter England

Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, wants to end rough sleeping by Christmas. But his plan must be backed by a council housing revolution.

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Yesterday's announcement on the first wave of funding through the Social and Affordable Homes Programme had a greater focus on social rent. 🙌 We're moving in the right direction - but to truly end the housing emergency we need 90,000 social homes a year, for ten years. shltr.org.uk/BfEfa

Burnham’s billion-pound package to build more social housing

As he campaigned to become the MP for Makerfield, Andy Burnham said he wanted £39 billion earmarked for new housing to be "dedicated to council homes".

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GOOD NEWS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING 🥳🎉 Today the government announced the first wave of funding, and the housebuilding programme's direction over the next 10 years. With a focus on social rent homes, it's a step towards the council house building comeback. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 70,000 social and affordable homes to be built across England over 10 years

Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire as well as £6bn for London.

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The recent win in our push for anti-racism to sit at the heart of social housing shows the power of campaigning together. In this latest update, Shelter Policy Manager Deborah Garvie charts the journey the campaign has taken – and what's up next: shltr.org.uk/xfEpF

Social landlords must be competent in tackling racism - Shelter England

Shelter campaigners calling for racism to be tackled in social housing have received a positive response from the Regulator of Social Housing.

shltr.org.uk

It's time for the government to listen to renters and address spiralling rents 📈 Send the Renters' Reform Coalition's briefing on rent caps to your MP now 👇🏾

Renters' Reform Coalition@rentersreformco.bsky.social · last mo.

⏰ It's time for politicians to take rent caps seriously. Sky-high rents are bad for our communities and bad for the economy. If you agree, write to your MP now! rentersreformcoalition.eaction.org.uk/rentcaps

It's reassuring that these plans for emergency support are backed up by a commitment to deliver over 1,000 settled homes to get people off the streets for good. More on the Prime Minister's game-changing move on rough sleeping: shltr.org.uk/TfEuW

Andy Burnham unveils plan to get rough sleepers off streets for Christmas

Rough sleepers in England will be offered housing, in a move likened to the “Everyone In” initiative during the pandemic.

shltr.org.uk

The Prime Minister's pledge to get everyone sleeping rough off the streets by Christmas is a game-changing move. This is exactly the kind of bold leadership needed to end the housing emergency. shltr.org.uk/afEyN

Burnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas

Prime minister urges local leaders to act as homelessness campaigners welcome move but say more needs to be done

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The #HousingEmergency is caused by successive governments failure to build enough genuinely affordable social homes - not by who accesses social housing. This policy does nothing to deliver new social homes, which is what we desperately need. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Tories unveil ‘unworkable’ plan to evict foreign nationals from social housing

Conservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals

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Let’s set the record straight, there are already strict rules on eligibility for social housing. You need to be legally settled, have recourse to public funds, pass a local connection test & have reached the top of the waiting list. #SocialHomesNotScapegoating www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives pledge to ban foreign nationals from social housing

They claim around 230,000 homes would become available under their plan to limit social housing entitlements.

bbc.co.uk

Flats reached 37C, and children were reportedly hospitalised, in temporary accommodation where the air-con was turned off. No family should have to live in these conditions. The government must build social homes and end the housing emergency now. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Homeless families moved out of London tower block where air con was switched off

At least two children living in Britannia Point in Colliers Wood were reportedly hospitalised as temperatures in their apartments soared to 37C

standard.co.uk

It's getting hot again for many. How to look out for anyone rough sleeping in the heat 👇🏽

Shelter@sheltercharity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Essential information ❤️ Please share 🙏🏾 #Heatwave

Our message to Andy Burnham? Ending rough sleeping’s a great start but with thousands of children stuck without a home, in damaging temporary accommodation, he must go further. It’s time to get councils building again and end the housing emergency for good. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Burnham is right about ending rough sleeping - but problem is much bigger'

EXCLUSIVE: Shelter CEO Sarah Elliott writes for the Mirror that Andy Burnham 'must set his sights in ending homelessness for good' after he pledged to end rough sleeping in his first move as PM

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You signed. We delivered. Now it’s time for action. We welcomed new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham by delivering our petition, signed by almost 9,000 of you, calling for councils to build social homes again. 👏 The message is simple: everyone deserves a safe, secure and genuinely affordable home. 🏡

'Bring back hope' is the new Prime Minister’s message. And honestly? We’re here for it. But hope needs somewhere to land. 🏠 That means building the social homes this country urgently needs.

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Racial inequality in the homelessness system lacks recognition and there is an absence of specific measures to address it. The Women and Equalities Committee has published a report on Black people's experiences of homelessness. Read the report: https://ow.ly/VVab50ZnnSo

'Any administration that is serious about fixing life’s foundations must start by delivering a new generation of social rent homes' ...and that means giving councils the power and resources to build again. (article has a paywall) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Andy Burnham vows to use government land for council houses

The prime minister in waiting will force departments to give up land they own to help drive the biggest ‘building programme since the post-war period’

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Councils are being crushed by £29bn+ of unfair historical debt. Let's clear it and let them build a new generation of social homes. Our CEO Sarah Elliott writing on @babelfishnews.bsky.social on how councils can get building again. shltr.org.uk/UfW9m

Wipe the debt and let councils build again

176,130 children are homeless. Councils delivered just 12,000 social rent homes last year, crushed by £29bn of historical debt. Clear it and let them build.

shltr.org.uk

In the 1960s on average councils built over 120,000 social homes a year 🏘️❤️ So what's holding them back now? Housing debt for one, says Shelter's Charlie Berry ⬇️ shltr.org.uk/dfW02

Historic debt is holding back social homes - Shelter England

New research shows cancelling council housing debt could unlock up to 284,000 social homes and help end the housing emergency

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For too long, housing benefit has not kept pace with soaring rents. This is driving record numbers of people into homelessness as they're priced out of their homes. The government must unfreeze housing benefit urgently so it covers the true cost of renting. Everyone needs a home.

Essential information ❤️ Please share 🙏🏾 #Heatwave

It's time to make property tax fairer. Council Tax and Stamp Duty are desperately in need of review. It can't be right that a £150k home in Bolton can pay more Council Tax than an £8 million mansion in Westminster. Agree? @fairershare.bsky.social petition > petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Petition: Commission a full Independent Review of Council Tax and Stamp Duty

We call on the Government to commission a full, independent review of Council Tax and Stamp Duty to deliver the fundamental, evidence-based reform the UK’s housing market urgently needs.

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If you or someone you love is struggling with gambling during the World Cup this summer, there is support out there ⚽💙 Advice here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4u9pgq1

From sweating in cramped temporary accommodation, to rough sleeping in the heat. Heatwaves highlight the inequalities caused by the housing emergency. Find out how to support someone rough sleeping in hot weather > shltr.org.uk/hot_weather #Heatwave

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 3mo ago

Another heatwave is on the way, albeit with less extreme heat and humidity compared with late June. But is it only the south that'll warm up or will high pressure extend north with time too? Aidan McGivern looks in detail at what we can expect during the next seven days. youtu.be/iUbOFL46i4Y

Encouraging 👇🏾 For any would-be leader to meet the moment, they must commit to a comprehensive plan to get councils building again - removing historic debt and boosting the funding for social homes to the scale the emergency demands. #AndyBurnham #SocialHomes

Mirror Politics@politics.mirror.co.uk · 3mo ago

Andy Burnham has promised the biggest council house building drive since the post-war era as he unveiled his blueprint for power.

No one should be criminalised for being homeless. Scrapping the Vagrancy Act is long overdue. From rough sleeping to children growing up without a home in temporary accommodation, it’s time to end homelessness for good. We need 90k new social homes a year for 10 years to end the housing emergency.

Crisis@crisis-uk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

NEW: Andy Burnham says he wants the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period. He's right that councils have a huge role to play. A new generation of council-built social homes has the potential to utterly transform our country and provide that stable basis for millions.