Labour has warned there is a risk of the resurgence of
post-war style slums that fuelled illness as it announced plans to join up
health and housing policies. Hundreds of thousands of rented homes are unfit to
live in, according to the party. It set out plans to create healthy homes zones
that would target areas with the worst quality housing. Shadow housing
secretary John Healey warned the country faced a return to the problems of the
"evil" of squalor that William Beveridge warned of when he paved the
way for the welfare state. Read more on the Independent website.
The Guardian view on unhealthy Britain: from housing to junk food, there
are solutions | Editorial
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People are living with sickness or disability younger than a decade ago.
That should shock the country and prompt action
The two-year decline in healthy ...
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