Poor housing is harming the health of one in five renters in England, with mould, damp and cold the main triggers of sickness, a major survey by the housing charity Shelter has revealed. Approximately 1.9m households could be suffering physical and mental problems as a result of poor housing conditions as well as uncertainty caused by struggles to pay the rent and repeated evictions, polling of over 3,000 private renters suggests. A quarter of all renters said they were affected by damp and mould and by being unable to heat their homes. They were three times more likely to say housing was harming their health than those without the problems. Read more on the Guardian website.
LA 2028 Olympics: fears of mass displacement and homeless sweeps as Trump
threat looms
-
The city has been here before, with arrests during the 1984 Olympics that
had long-term consequences for the city’s Black and brown people
In the lead-up...
6 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment