Shelter announces new CEO who aims to deliver change

Different face same policies then.
Oh well thanks for info.

So presumably she will demand the Home Secretary and the Foreign Office will ensure that property ‘squatters’ will be returned to their home rather be the cuckoo preventing Brits and legal migrants, you know the ones we actually want, to form part of her much vaunted community?

I wonder if she will be getting a pay rise from her current £130,000 salary?
Perhaps Shelter could use some of the £56,000,000 raised last year to actually provide some shelter?
Maybe then they could have some real landlord experience?
Perhaps they could also look at all the extra costs and burdens being heaped upon landlords by the current government. All these costs and administrative burdens (and the time and money involved) must be passed on to the end consumers: the tenants.
5% second owners’ tax = 5% extra rent per month.
The Simple enough!

Here’s a thought. Why don’t they use their money to actually house people? They could try being landlords or actually do some building. The easiest thing in the world is just to sit there telling everybody what they should be doing while doing nothing yourself.

“Huge congratulations to Sarah! It’s the most fantastic job you could wish for, working with the most committed and talented people you’ll ever meet. What an exciting new era for Shelter.” Says Polly pocket. Of course it’s the best job you could wish for – you don’t actually do anything – all your role is to slag the PRS off and bring the rental market on its knees, and that’s you doing your job for £140,000. What changes is this Sarah going to bring? Probably gives herself more money and muck the system up even more because let’s face it, no-one really cares about the homeless or families facing homelessness. They could use their money being guarantors for the people they so care about or put their money where their mouth is and actually do some good for once.

As Shelter states in their annual report – ‘Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe home. Every year, we help those who are struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services.’

Shelter at best seems to just offer an advice line – an obscene amount of money floating around in their organisation for just that and obviously plenty to pay for Shelters senior execs big salaries – no actual physical support for people such as providing the safe homes or anything else really. Their most recent published annual report (23/24) – download via https://england.shelter.org.uk/what_we_do/how_we_spend_your_money
is around 95 PAGES long with a lot of waffle and for me lacks any evidence (data, statistics etc) on how they actually help or support people and evidence based results of their actions in helping people – because I don’t think they can.

Polly Neates’ welcoming Twitter to new incoming CEO (as quoted in the article) says it all – all about them – NO mention of the people they are supposed to support or serve.

Disgraceful – just like other similar ‘charities’ (or scams?) such as The Big Issue and the like which doesn’t seem to actually help the homeless. Instead it is easier for them to bash the people who are actually tirelessly and at their own risk providing the homes and far far worse destroying the very fabric of the PRS with ignorance and complete disregard of the consequences to the people that need the PRS (as due to Govt and local council incompetence and lack of foresight the social housing waiting lists are decades long, fewer people eligible and many properties in a bad state of disrepair) and lack of accountability/conscience for their actions – shameful.

With millions in their coffers they should be directed to provide the safe homes – the rights of which they are defending after all.

Shelter (and some other tenant rights groups) have already done huge damage to the private rented sector, and as a consequence forced upon tenants a severe shortage of PRS homes, and a necessary increase in rents (higher costs and risks to landlords = higher rents have to be charged). This also has knock on effects to the demand for social rented housing, AND emergency homelessness provision.
However, the new CEO has not even stepped into her role yet, so perhaps it is a bit early to start judging her performance. Maybe she will take on board the concerns of private landlords and will start working with us, instead of against us, so that both can achieve the objective of actually housing people.

Meet the new boss same as the old boss.

Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 28/04/2025 – 11:40
Of course no-one can comment on new CEO yet – comments are on ongoing ‘performance’ of Shelter – evidence based information on how they actually support people is severely lacking and their contribution to the destruction of the PRS is shameful and disgusting.

Delivering charge, is that a handfull of coins after spending all of the money on themselves?