Your Living Hell series of articles on the crisis in Britain’s rental sector has highlighted the significant impact that the buildings in which we live and work can have on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. As you’ve shown, housing is associated with a huge inequity in health-related outcomes for the most disadvantaged members of our society.
People living in poverty are more likely to live in poorer quality housing, which then increases the risk of poor health. Poverty and poor health are themselves barriers to choice, and so the ability to afford or access healthy, stable homes will become increasingly unlikely, reinforcing existing health inequalities.
