Almost 10m UK households living in ‘cold, damp, poorly insulated homes’

The UK is among the countries with the oldest and least efficient housing stock in Europe. Photograph: georgeclerk/Getty Images

Almost 10m households across the UK are living in cold, damp and poorly insulated homes while not earning enough to be able to make improvements to them, according to analysis.

A total of 34% of UK households or 9.6m are living in cold, poorly insulated homes, according to analysis of the English Housing Survey by the Institute of Health Equity and Friends of the Earth.