The social housing and homelessness charity Shelter has lost its campaigning edge, according to its founder Des Wilson
In a speech at the NHF conference, Wilson said the social housing sector had "become such big business that it has lost anger for injustice".

He said "a new Shelter" was needed because "it quite clearly is not doing now what needs doing".

"I don't know whether its role has changed and it feels it's doing a different kind of thing, or whether it's not effective," he said.

A spokesman for Shelter defended the charity, saying: "Shelter must work in the most effective way to get the best long-term result for the people it represents. This will of course include working and cooperating with government and other agencies.

"Working with organisations, which may mean taking money from them, doesn't mean you cannot criticise them. But criticising them is not necessarily the most effective campaigning method. Shelter has never shied away from saying where there is bad policy or practice."

NHF chief executive Jim Coulter said: "We're not going back to the 1960s. But I do think the energy is there. It's a matter of how to release it."