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New housing bill helps health but leaves renters in arrears

Few events can be more stressful than being evicted from your family home, through no fault of your own, during a cost of living and housing crisis. The stress this can cause, plus the disruption to work, education, family relationships and neighbourhood connections, have an impact on mental and physical health.1

As the Royal College of GPs chair recently highlighted, unsafe, damp and cold housing conditions also widen the health gap between rich and poor through infections, falls, asthma, allergies and stress.2 As well as the human impact, the NHS acute care costs associated with unhealthy housing in England are over £1bn per year, on top of the burden on GPs, mental health and social care.3

The Renters’ Reform Bill, introduced on 17 May, aims to “bring in a better deal for renters” and could reduce some health related harms.4 But there is a long way to go to repair this key building block of good health. If the government is serious about levelling up health and ....

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