Understanding the mental health impacts of poor quality private-rented housing during the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown

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Abstract

This paper examines the mental health impacts of poor quality private-rented housing in the north of England during the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown. The paper draws on data collected from semi-structured telephone interviews with 40 renters in the private-rented sector. We use the Power Threat Meaning Framework to highlight how substandard housing was a social and material vulnerability which, underpinned by powerlessness, resulted in threats that created and exacerbated the mental-ill health of precarious private renters. The paper suggests the pandemic and increased time spent in unhealthy places of residence can create stresses at a time of broader structural fragility, and calls for the greater engagement and integration of health practitioners in the future development of housing policy at all levels.
Original languageEnglish
Article number102898
Number of pages8
JournalHealth and Place
Volume78
Early online date22 Aug 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2022

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