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Thank you for all your support in 2008. Together we successfully:
• lobbied two new Housing Ministers to continue to prioritise the building of more homes
• created one of the largest Downing Street e-petitions on affordable housing
• helped persuade the Government to increase the safety net for those most at risk of losing their homes
• helped bring forward funding for more than 5,000 new affordable homes
• shaped Shelter's new Now Is The Time campaign and made sure almost a hundred MPs signed the Early Day Motion to support its calls
What now?
They'll join you as part of a growing force - the team of Shelter campaigners who are taking action on bad housing and homelessness and making a real difference to people's lives.
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http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...38&SESSION=891
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HOUSING NEED
18.06.2008
Buck, Karen
That this House recognises that Britain is suffering the effects of a housing affordability crisis; highlights new research by Shelter showing that two million households are being pushed to breaking point by unmanageable housing costs; notes that thousands of households are homeless or trapped in damp, dilapidated or overcrowded housing, because they are unable to afford to rent or buy a decent home; welcomes the launch of Shelter's Now is the Time campaign to make sure everyone has an affordable, decent place to call home; and calls on the Government to meet its commitment on building homes by 2020, ensure that enough social rented homes are built for those who need them most, protect people facing eviction and repossession or living in bad housing, and end the housing divide by making the housing system fairer for everyone.
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It's our country. We are the ones who need to protect it. Just keeping you informed. Not telling you what to do about it, although obviously I'm incidentally plugging Shelter... the important thing is to realise that there is a lot of work to do before everyone is sheltered as they deserve, and it is up to society as a whole to fight and remove any lack of fairness. |
