Shelter Northern Ireland was founded in 1980 and is a charity whose aim is to organise to secure rights to housing for all households in Northern Ireland

The housing and homeless problems encountered over 20 years ago are different from today’s problems. The nature of the issues has become more complex requiring a greater range of cooperation between agencies. Shelter NI is lobbying for the completion of 15,000 new social houses to be built over the remaining 3 years of the Stormont Executive's Programme for Government to intervene to make housing for sale or rent affordable to households on low incomes.