The Importance Of Healthy Homes


“Do you believe a healthy home can positively affect the following?” g Yes g No g Unsure/Don’t Know


designs and repairs available to bring housing stock up to a higher standard – but Housing Management & Maintenance’s research of 120 landlords and housing professionals has highlighted a number of barriers to doing so, ranging from costs to a lack of Government attention on retrofit. In our survey, of which 54% of the respondents were in the position of


director, with an average of 1,163 homes managed, we hoped to ascertain not just the barriers to improving housing stock, but what housing professionals perceive a healthy home to be, and how much of their stock they would describe as such. With the vast majority of respondents (89%) believing that healthy homes can increase tenants’ life expectancy being contrasted with a shocking 1 in 3


respondents (35%) reporting that they would only describe 50% or less of their housing stock as healthy, this white paper provides an interesting insight into the industry’s position on this dilemma.


INTRODUCTION From a broader perspective, housing in England has improved dramatically over time, from the inception of housing regulation and the Garden City Association – which would later become the Town and Country Planning Association – in the 19th century, to the boom in social housing in the early 20th century, to the slum clearances throughout the century’s remaining decades. In more recent times, however, progress seems to have stalled somewhat, and


“Do you agree with any of the following statements?”


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