Shelter has also developed services to assist asylum seekers and migrant workers who are in housing need.I am sure that members agree that Shelter has a record of achievement of which all who work there should—justifiably—be proud.From our vantage point, we can look back over almost a century of developing and building social housing, from the housing act that John Wheatley championed in 1924, which led to the mass construction of social housing—more than 500,000 homes were built for rent to low-paid workers—through to the housing boom of the post-war years, the slum clearances, the move to new towns in the 1950s and 1960s, the rise in owner occupation and—bringing us up to date...