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01  Review of Marmot   Added 09.09.2010

Early in 2010 the Marmot Review into Health Inequalities was published and it dealt fully with the non-medical determinants of health and wellbeing. This review usefully identifies all the passages in Marmot that relate to housing and other environmental influences on wellbeing outcomes.

2010 Marmot Review into Health Inequalities: Review identifing all the passages relating to housing and other environmental inf.

Early in 2010 the Marmot Review into Health Inequalities was published and it dealt fully with the non-medical determinants of health and wellbeing. This review usefully identifies all the passages in Marmot that relate to housing and other environmental influences on wellbeing outcomes.

Proposal for Royal Commission on Housing 2010

Many commentators on housing and social policy have made the point that the recently announced cuts in Housing Benefit will cause widespread additional hardship to some of the most vulnerable in our society.

We feel that the calls being made by some observers for ‘transitional arrangements’ to ease the burden do not go anywhere far enough. There have been deep-seated and systemic problems with our housing arrangements for many decades and the present financial crisis is but one outcome of these.

Massive Cost to Taxpayer regarding UK Housing Policy

Letter published by The Observer 5 September 2010

Two major facts have been missed in suggesting the poor should fund their own salvation. First, the lowest levels of income in unemployment or in work are already creating high levels of misery and debt, which lead to household mental and physical ill-health which, in turn, create massive costs to the taxpayer.

Response to Institute of Fiscal Studies Report of Welfare Cuts

Sir,
The Institute of Fiscal Studies rightly decides that welfare cuts are regressive, (report, Aug 25, and letter, Aug 27) but the Government is concerned about the £21 billion annual cost of housing benefit to the taxpayer.

UK Housing Policy: U.N. Concerns over Traveller Housing

UK DELAYS ANSWERING UN
OVER BASILDON EVICTIONS
 
 
While Foreign Secretary William Hague
has yet to make known his response to
the UN request to halt Gypsy evictions
the bulldozers are lining up to crush more
homes this month.
 
On the front line are eight Romani and
Traveller properties at Wickford, Essex,
facing imminent eviction by Basildon
District Council, employing the notorious

UK Housing Policy: Bookshelf

Author: Peter Ambrose
Urban Process and Power

Author: M. Davidson
The Real Cost of Poor Housing

Author: David Hughes
The Private Rented Housing Market: Regulation or Deregulation?

Author: Ron Moore
Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History

Author: David Ormandy
Housing and Health in Europe: The Who Lares Project

 

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