How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy
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par Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
Amy Clair, Associate Professor (Housing Research), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
Mark Stephens, Mactaggart Chair in Land, Property & Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow
People in the UK are now spending fewer years in good health than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis by the Health Foundation. The UK now sits near the bottom of a 21-country comparison, ahead only of the US.
A drop in healthy life expectancy is explained through many causes: obesity, alcohol, drugs, suicide, chronic disease, poverty and widening inequality. But one of the most powerful causes sits atop them all: housing. Where…
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