Absolutely shocking, risking leaving (more) disabled people destitute - theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

It has been such a pleasure to be invited to organise our Housing and Health Education Day at Barts NHS Trust. Thanks to Barts Education Academy (Barts Health Education Academy) for supporting and hosting us 🧵(1/6)

'Creating a fossil-free, fairer and healthier future offers immense public health benefits, both directly through local, short-term health benefits, eg transport, housing, food and cleaner air, and in terms of longer-term health gains through addressing climate change.' 👇

New briefing on #Housing , #Poverty and #PublicHealth for the Faculty of Public Health's Poverty Special Interest Group - glad to have been able to contribute to this:

Damp and mould are serious #health issues, affecting far too many people - particularly in rented homes. This great short documentary from Medact, NEF & #HomesForUs sets out how & why our homes are making us sick.
To get involved & see the full film: HomesforUs.org.uk

Glad to have been able to represent Medact at the #EnergyForAll #ColdHomesKill demonstration outside parliament on Budget day today, and to speak about the health impacts of cold, damp homes and energy poverty.

More on the Energy For All campaign - energyforall.org.uk

📢 London Demonstration

#ColdHomesKill thousands of people every winter ❄️

Energy is a human right 💡

Pensioners, tenants health workers and disabled people have come together to Unite 4 #EnergyForAll

NEW: Scrapping the uprating of working-age benefits in line with prices next year would:
- reduce the incomes of 9m households by an average of £470
- push an additional 400,000 children into absolute poverty
- save HM Treasury up to £4.2bn resolutionfoundation.org/publications/r…

“You can’t cure killed babies with more dead babies. We need peace.”

The son of a missing Israeli peace activist says that his mother would be mortified by the situation in Gaza, and that vengeance is not a strategy.

Trying in numerous Western and Arabic media to call for effective international pressure to reverse Israeli forcible transfer of people and siege in and on Gaza, release of Hamas held hostages, and for a total ceasefire. Too many children have died. Too many civilians will die.

🙏💚 SAVE THE DATE - 21st November, London 💚🙏 Join health workers, scientists, lawyers, teachers and others in London to lobby your MP and demand 'For Health Sake No New Oil' 💚🙏 Register your interest here - actionnetwork.org/forms/no-new-o… 💚🙏

We need to find a way of not living in the endless loop of death, hatred and blood. Of no occupation and no wars.

Those who currently promise us only more killing, promise us revenge. not security. Not the return of the Israeli captives. They promise us death, not life.

Fascinating paper showing that private renting - and the insecurity implicit in it - is associated with markers of faster biological ageing (& related health consequences).

Interestingly, social renting is no different to outright ownership once other factors are accounted for.

Living in a privately rented home is linked to more rapid biological ageing, according to research just published in JECH_BMJ - with roughly 2x the ageing effect of #obesity & half that of #smoking : theguardian.com/society/2023/o… #housing #health

Investing significantly more in social and affordable housing could save the UK government an estimated £1.5 billion a year overall by eliminating substantial costs related to homelessness, according to a new report led by UCL researchers. bit.ly/3Q9lRoY

There is a big problem with Tesco and they do NOT want you to know about it⁠ 🤫

Tesco tells customers it aims to be deforestation-free.
Indigenous People of the Amazon say Tesco is STILL doing business with meat giant JBS, putting people & planet at risk.

Who do you believe?