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We were formed in 1966 by Bruce Kenrick (founder chairman) who worked with Des Wilson, a political activist who became Shelter’s first Director, in response to the country’s massive housing crisis.
Shelter was launched on 1 December 1966, evolving out of the work on behalf of homeless people then being carried on in Notting Hill in London. The launch of Shelter hugely benefited from the coincidental screening, in November 1966, of the BBC television play Cathy Come Home ten days before Shelter's launch.
At the start of the 1980’s nearly 1 in 3 households lived in social homes, but today social housing has lost its universal status as a home for everyone. It has become an overstretched ambulance service, relying on ageing infrastructure.
Shelter was founded as a social justice organisation. To win the fight for home, social justice must be at the forefront, not only in the work we do to change the country but in how we work internally.
In 1967 Crisis at Christmas is founded by Bill Shearman. The aspiring politician joins forces with a network of homelessness activists in east London, backed by Conservative Shadow Chancellor Iain Macleod MP, ensuring cross-party support.
Shelter was founded in England in 1966 by a group of charities in response to what was seen as the growing but overlooked problem of homelessness. Cathy come home 1966 was also the year that the BBC screened Ken Loach’s film about homelessness, Cathy Come Home.
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The Housing (Homeless Persons) Act of 1977 was introduced to help people who were homeless, or threatened with homelessness. The act stated that all local authorities had to provide accommodation for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness.
