Shelter and housing the homeless in Britain. Bad housing conditions, slums and council estates. Shelter Housing Organization.

Exterior shots of terraced streets and rooftops.

Children playing on streets. Clothes hanging on a line between streets.

London Housing Aid Centre. A woman sitting at reception answers telephone calls. Waiting room shows adults reading and children playing on the floor. A couple chatting with an advisor.

Female advisors talking on telephone.

Shelter Housing Aid Centre Director Father Burns talking about the centre.

Advisors working at their desks. Interview with Audrey Harvey talking about eviction prevention.

Suburban street with 'for sale' signs outside houses. A couple, two teachers, talking to camera about difficulty of getting on the property ladder.

Exterior shots of various tower blocks.

Liverpool. Shelter employee, David Mars, talking about demand and lack of housing.

Exterior shots of apartment blocks and terraced streets.

Female Regional Organizer for Shelter talking to camera, then David Mars.

Black children play outside on the pavement.

More external shots of council buildings and a gloomy city.

A family walks along the road, the father carrying suitcases. Children playing outside the tenement buildings.

London. Man talking to camera about the 'square' he lives on being unsafe for his daughter to play. Children walking along the pavement.

Male occupants of council accommodation talking about poor conditions they live in.

Families sitting in Shelter waiting room.

A young family talking about living with in-laws.

Interior of flat in London. Man reading newspaper with young daughter on his knee who has spina bifida. Mother talking about their difficult circumstances.

Tenant, Mrs. Harris, talking outside her home. Landlord has placed a for sale sign outside the window.

Exterior view of sub-standard terraced houses and alleyways. Women walking along a dirty pavement, children playing nearby.

Interior of shelter housing showing bare hallways, peeling paint, water marks on ceiling.

David Shawmendy, Shelter Health Inspection Officer, talks to a tenant. Inspecting accommodation, he points out damage from damp and humidity.

Rubble and wood from house demolition pouring from back of lorry. Rubbish burning in empty street.

Researchers from the North Islington Housing Rights Project making door-to-door enquiries. Researcher questioning tenant about her home.

Chris Holmes talking about the research project he directed.

Circle Thirty Three Housing Trust Ltd: Interior of newly refurbished shelter accommodation. Woman from Circle Thirty Three talking about renovation project.

Aerial view of Leeds. John Parkson of the Leeds Shelter group talking about volunteer project.

Young people working in house voluntarily.

Interview with the woman who was rehoused from substandard accommodation.

Young people painting, sewing and putting up wall paper.

The Housing Aid Centre, at 138 Granby Street, Bradford. Still photographs showing exterior view of Shelter's successful housing experiment in Bradford.

South coast: panoramic shot of beach front. Littlehampton: shot of new houses standing empty. Members of Littlehampton Shelter Action Group walking into overgrown garden of empty new house.

Anita Ruddick talking about the major problem of empty houses in West Sussex.

Bernice and Terry Taylor, of Burgess Hill Shelter Group, providing tea and biscuits for those less fortunate. Washing dishes, the Taylors explain why they open up their home to strangers.

Money raising campaign in action: posting flyers through doors, asking for donations, playing instruments and a man handing out raffle tickets. People playing games at a fundraising fair.

Children playing on street. Headmaster John Parson talking about impact of poor housing on children.

Outdoor scenes of children playing and women pushing baby carriages down a grimy street.

Series of still shots: billboard adverts for British Airways, cigarettes etc. interspersed with photographs of families living in poor living conditions.

Children playing in a back alley. Elderly people walking with difficulty along the pavement.