evidence: Housing charity Shelter warned there was a "chronic shortage of social housing" and that "any new dawn for social renters must come with major investment in new homes too". [...] The prime minister says the proposals will ensure "social housing tenants are treated with the respect they deserve", but critics argue there is too little for the 93,000 households in England currently stuck in temporary accommodation, or the estimated 3.8 million people in need of social housing. [...] But she warned: "With over a million households already on the social housing waiting list, and many more families potentially facing homelessness as the recession bites, any new regulatory system is being set up to fail unless we build many more social homes."