Fifty years on, we need charities like Shelter more than ever in the face of another national housing crisis
Back in 1966, while England was celebrating winning the World Cup, I spent the summer on a more sobering mission, exploring the slums of our major cities.
There I discovered another, less happy country: thousands of families packed into crumbling houses ; 30 or more people sharing one tap and one toilet; damp stripping the wallpaper from the walls and entrenching itself in clothing and bedding; hovels infested with mice and rats.
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