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POVERTY AND POOR HOUSING IN SCOTLAND


Loneliness 'as damaging to health as poverty and poor housing' - BBC

Loneliness is "as damaging to Scots health as poverty and poor housing", an official report has suggested. The Scottish Parliament's equal ...

Child poverty in Scotland: The Facts - Save the Children UK

170 000 (17%) children in Scotland live in poverty in Scotland (before housing costs) and 220 000. (or more than 1 in 5) children living in poverty (after ...

Housing, poverty & public health

privately rented housing, Right to Buy, poverty and poor health in the UK policy context. Acronyms: PRS - Private Rented Sector; C-O-L - Cost of Living. Page ...

Millions of young adults living in poor quality housing, UK study shows

One in six young adults in the UK are living in poor-quality housing, according to research that says damp, draughty and cramped living ...

Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the ... - IFS

Indeed in 2021, the relative poverty rate was 17% using incomes measured before deducting housing costs, but 22% using incomes measured after ...

Young people's health worsened by poor quality housing

One in six young people in the UK is living in poor quality housing, according to new research, with dampness and inadequate heating and plumbing facilities

Poverty and Poor Housing - Primary Care Respiratory Society

In 2016, the British Lung Foundation (now Asthma + Lung UK) published The Battle for Breath – the report of a three-year epidemiological study into lung disease ...

New human rights case studies on housing, health and poverty

A group of people living in mostly council-owned properties in Leith, Edinburgh, who are using human rights to tackle poor housing conditions ...

Loneliness A Public Health Crisis As Damaging As Poverty And ...

Loneliness is becoming such a critical problem in Scotland that it has been compared to poverty and poor housing in terms of how damaging it ...

Scottish poverty study calls on governments to tackle rising deprivation

Key housing problems of inadequate heating, damp, family overcrowding, money for decoration, and housing debt/arrears have all got worse in ...

The links between housing and poverty: an evidence review

Figure 6: Poverty BHC and housing-cost-induced poverty by region, UK, ... Do poor housing conditions create poverty and employment? There is ...

The relationship between income and housing condition

POVERTY AND POOR HOUSING IN SCOTLAND: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME AND. HOUSING CONDITION. Amanda Littlewood and Moira Munro. [Paper first received, October ...

Housing and health: a reading list - The House of Commons Library

The causal link between poor housing conditions and poor health outcomes is long established. The early Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention ...

The realities of housing for children in poverty - World Vision UK

A study by the Rowntree Foundation found that 3.1 million people experience housing-induced poverty in the UK alone. ... poor housing, hazardous locations, social ...

Housing costs drive 50000 Scottish children into poverty, charities ...

Housing costs in Scotland are pushing 50,000 children into poverty, charities have warned. Linked In Twitter Facebook eCard.

Poverty and mental health: policy, practice and research implications

Glasgow has some of the highest Scottish rates of income deprivation, working-age adults claiming out of work benefits, and children living in low-income ...

Poverty stats lay bare Scotland's 'broken and biased' housing system

The latest poverty and income inequality statistics expose endemic bias in Scotland's broken housing system, Shelter Scotland has said.

Breaking the circle of poverty - Holyrood

Poverty statistics released by the Scottish Government measured from 2019 to 2022 show that one in five Scots – more than one million people – ...

Investment in social housing reduces poverty, improves health and ...

Housing associations' work helps to tackle homelessness in Scotland. The report's findings showed that housing associations are increasingly ...

One million Scots 'cannot afford adequate housing' - BBC News

The report shows there is slightly less poverty in Scotland than the rest of the UK - 18% of children and adults in Scotland were poor at the ...