Posted 18.10.16
The Living Home Standard has been created by the public, for the public, to define what an acceptable home should provide. It looks at what we should all be able to expect from our home in order to secure our wellbeing and provide a foundation from which we can build and live our lives.
The Standard is the product of nine months of research undertaken by Ipsos MORI on behalf of Shelter and British Gas, and involved discussion groups, workshops and quantitative surveys as well as an online community.
The result is a list of 39 attributes which define the Living Home Standard, split between essentials that all homes must meet and tradables which take account of differing needs and priorities between households. It is a standard that applies to all homes, irrespective of their tenure, size or age.
The 39 statements which make up the Living Home Standard are split across five different dimensions:
Within each dimension some attributes are classed as essentials - conditions that every home must meet in order to meet the Living Home Standard. Other attributes were classed as tradables, features many people believed were important, but they were not universally applicable to or equally desired by everyone.
A home needs to meet a certain number of the tradable conditions in each dimension of the Standard, but not all, in order for it to achieve the Living Home Standard overall.
Whether a household meets the Living Home Standard or not can be measured by determining whether the 39 attributes included in the Standard are stated as true or false.
A home must meet all of the essential attributes a third to one half of the tradable attributes in each dimension. Based on that, the report concludes that 43% of all homes do not meet the Living Home Standard.
Click here for more information and to access the report.
