
There’s something useful to be learned about housing in general by considering the health benefits of stable housing for older people. We may not be as adaptable as we’d like to believe. Move an resident of a nursing home to unfamiliar housing, even a room down the hall for only a short period of time. It may well be risking their life.
UN guidance states that adequate housing includes security of tenure for owners and renters1.
And what do we find if we survey advanced countries that can surely afford, if any can, to provide security of tenure for all their citizens?
By and large, excuses.
Try the latest excuses from the United Kingdom, which pays lip service compassion towards renters. Meanwhile, English laws guarantee the profits of landlords and do not protect the health and happiness of renters in their homes.
Read more in The Guardian: Ministers ‘betray’ renters in England with delay to no-fault evictions ban
Footnotes
- For specifics, see pages 3 and 4 in The Right to Adequate Housing, which is posted at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.