Health promotion must be at the heart of housing

Health promotion must be at the heart of housing

Last summer several local government representatives held an emergency meeting with parliamentarians to discuss how councils are haemorrhaging funds to house growing numbers of homeless individuals and families in, often unsuitable, temporary accommodation. The government’s answer – building 1.5m homes by 2029 – appears to make sense at face value. But prioritising this national target, and fixating on numbers, misses much more fundamental quest…