Section: Health & Housing

Health of one in five renters harmed by their home

Posted 13.10.21
Shelter: Further reading

The health of one in five renters (22%) in England - or 1.9 million households - is being harmed by poor housing, stark new research from Shelter reveals.

The charity's YouGov poll reveals the most common problems plaguing renters' mental and physical health. They include:

Renters experiencing any one of these issues are three times more likely than renters without these issues to say their current housing situation is harming their health.

In a separate poll of private renters only, Shelter delved deeper into the impact of housing problems on peoples' health since the start of the pandemic:

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