The Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition is calling for urgent action to tackle the UK’s accessible housing crisis by raising the mandatory building standards.
Town and Country Planning Association's Healthy Homes Act sets out to create a clear definition of what a healthy home should be and to bring in a law that would require all homes to meet this standard.
In partnership with The King's Fund, this report summarises the role and impact of poor-quality housing on health, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facts and stats on how COVID-19 has exacerbated the link between housing and health, and how the lockdown has impacted those living in poor-quality homes.
Improving England's housing stock will have massive benefits for people's safety and health, but also have a positive impact on the economy and the strain on the NHS.
About 1 in 5 homes in England do not meet the national standard to be considered in decent condition. These are more likely to be lived in by people identified as most at risk from the virus, new report shows.