'Housing subsidies - who benefits most?'

 'Under-occupancy' in council housing (Guardian 7 August, p4)

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Question “The Government is committed to delivering more affordable homes. How could reform best be implemented to ensure providers can continue to deliver the new homes we need and maintain the existing affordable homes?”

The data in the article make a powerful case for the overall cost- effectiveness of welfare spending and Figure 1 puts our debt situation into proper, rather than hysterical, perspective. The silo mentalities referred to penetrate to the highest level of government - in fact that is where they are most damaging.

To many upstream interventions to improve health outcomes seem a self–evident approach to take. Most certainly money spent on improving housing is money invested in health. If we don’t spend money on unsatisfactory housing, society will pay, again and again. Work by the BRE Trust using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, (developed on the basis of actual health impacts of housing conditions) shows that as a minimum poor housing costs the NHS £600 million a year and that the full costs to society are more like £1.5 billion.

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 01    Response to article in BMJ by Stuckler, Basu, McKee

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A conference exploring how housing and health professionals are working together to reduce the impact of poor housing on health.

Friday 21 May 2010 – 15Hatfields, London

In the UK, over 70% of housing is in the private sector. While the majority of landlords and home owners maintain properties to a good standard, the private sector is also home to some of the most unhealthy and unsafe properties.

As a key determinant of health, housing interventions play a vital role in helping to reduce the burden on the health service.

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