“Making housing a priority public health intervention not only presents a pivotal opportunity, but a moral imperative. The health of our communities depends on it.” Excellent editorial in The Lancet on the role of housing in improving our health thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Really positive contribution to the debate this - I particularly welcome the idea that government should have a long term strategy for housing. Which sounds obvious but has been sadly lacking for too long.

Harm caused by England’s #HousingCrisis fills the media every day. It’s unacceptable.

#HomesForAll is a vision for a better housing system & affordable, quality homes.

Read our letter in the Financial Times:
ft.com/content/5ef89b…

Archbishop of Canterbury
Nationwide Foundation
Crisis
National Housing Federation

'We have no long-term housing plan. Here's why the Church of England is stepping up to fix it' - Guli Francis-Dehqani writes for the Big Issue in advance of today's parliamentary launch of the HomesForAllEngland report.

Nationwide Foundation CaCHE David Orr
bigissue.com/opinion/church…

CaCHE is proud to have played a part in HomesForAllEngland, with Kenneth Gibb and Alex Marsh @ UoB producing the report and outcomes alongside David Orr.

👉homesforall.org.uk #ukhousing #HomesForAll

Growing reliance on private renting, combined with cuts in Housing Benefits, pushing thousands of low income households out of inner city.
The Guardian coverage of our Housing Studies paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mark Livingston Bin Chi

Next week 17-19 October (with some events 21/22 October) is Festival of the Future City. The full programme is here: bristolideas.co.uk/projects/festi…. Some events now have waiting lists.

Researching housing law & policy is fundamental to society. Today on #WorldHomelessDay , we're highlighting research addressing the housing crisis in Bristol and the UK:

Find out more about Dr Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social & Prof Alex Marsh (@UoBrisSPS)'s work:

🔗bit.ly/48JgKDk

Bishop convenes group to prepare draft housing strategy for England #ukhousing dlvr.it/SwJg4P

Don't forget to submit to next year's Housing Studies Association Annual Conference #HSA2024 on Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives. Our deadline for submissions is the 17th November 2023. Find out more here: housing-studies-association.org/pages/conferen…

By me and KG > Rent control on its own won't solve the housing crisis theconversation.com/rent-control-o… via The Conversation

Even if you can find one of the 5% of advertised private rentals that are affordable within LHA rates (Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis today), you'll be paying 19% more for your heating and hot water ifs.org.uk/publications/h…

- water companies had no debt when they were privatised

- since then they gave borrowed £53bn

- much of this has been used to help pay £72bn in dividends

- interest rates have now spiked

- what could possible go wrong?

ft.com/content/deaf19…

Policy & Politics has received it’s highest ever #ImpactFactor ! Our JIF of 4.7 puts us in the top quartile for Political Science & Public Admin. We also had our best ever #CiteScore of 6.3🥳
Thank you to all of of the authors, reviewers & editors who made this possible!🙏

🤯 #Bristol rents grew over twice as fast as wages between 2011-21

🏡 Our #LivingRentCity Commission, chaired by Cllr Tom Renhard & University of Bristol’s Prof Alex Marsh, is calling for government to give Bristol City Council the power to introduce rent control

✍️ bit.ly/3CQaxqw

Planning permission and registration for short-term lets look like good news for areas where they've hollowed out the long-term rental market - and essential ahead of Renters Reform Bill... but.... 👇gov.uk/government/new…

Workshop 1a #HSA2023 focuses on the private rented sector, exploring a range of aspects from regulation, to rent control hear from Dr Tom Simcock Kenneth Gibb Alex Marsh @ UoB Nick Bailey Co-Ownership

housing-studies-association.org/pages/2023-con…

Researching private renting in the 🌎 Majority World? Adriana Soaita and Sohail Ahmad 👉 2 weeks left to sent your abstract for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference, London 📩[email protected] Please 🐦

Out in ISSUE 4️⃣

“How policymakers employ ethical frames to design and introduce new policies: the case of childhood vaccine mandates in Australia” by Katie Attwell (A/Prof Katie Attwell) & Mark Navin. 💉🇦🇺

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Our call for papers for #HSA2023 is now live. For details of the event and to submit your abstract check our website here - housing-studies-association.org/pages/annual-c…