Clair, A. et al, 24 May 2016, The impact of housing payment problems on health status during economic recession: A comparative analysis of longitudinal EU SILC data of 27 European states, 2008–2010, excerpt:
Monday, 10 December 2018
Australia 2018: Is long-term rental destroying the wellbeing of low income households?
Across the nation,
people who rent are living on insecure tenancies. Almost 9 in 10 Australians
who rent (88%) are on leases of a year or less, and are not certain of where
they will be living in a year’s time. This impacts a person’s ability to feel
part of the local community and establish roots.
The
Land, 1 May
2018:
AFFORDABLE rentals on
the state’s North Coast are increasingly few and far between, but the
continued rise of the Airbnb-model now sees 3000-plus homes sit empty
while low-income and government-assisted tenants are shut out.
Anglicare’s latest
Housing Affordability Snapshot says the region’s rental crisis has
worsened as property owners in Ballina, Byron Bay, and the Tweed are
incentivised to target short-term holidaymakers through web-based booking
companies instead of potential long-term renters.
The Anglicare report,
released on Sunday, showed available
North Coast rental properties were in steep decline (down from 795 in
2017 to 660 in 2018) with all family groups on income support, and single
households on minimum wage, likely to struggle to find housing for themselves
and their children.
Clair, A. et al, 24 May 2016, The impact of housing payment problems on health status during economic recession: A comparative analysis of longitudinal EU SILC data of 27 European states, 2008–2010, excerpt:
Transitioning into
housing arrears was associated with a significant deterioration in the health
of renters…..
Housing arrears is one
of the so-called ‘soft’ ways in which housing influences health (Shaw, 2004),
especially mental health, alongside the ‘hard’, physical impacts of the
infrastructure itself, such as damp, mould, and cold. A growing body of
scholarship indicates that people who experience housing insecurity,
independent of other financial difficulties, experience declines in mental health
(Gili et al., 2012, Keene et al., 2015, Meltzer et al., 2013, Meltzer et al., 2011, Nettleton and Burrows, 1998).
In Australia, analysis of the longitudinal HILDA dataset found that those in
lower income households who had moved into unaffordable housing experienced a
worsening in mental health (Bentley, Baker, Mason,
Subramanian, & Kavanagh, 2011), with male renters faring worse (Bentley et al., 2012, Mason et al., 2013).
One has to
wonder if being a long-term renter affects quality of life to such a degree
that on average renters die earlier than
home-owners.
Labels:
Australian society,
cost of living,
health,
housing,
Northern Rivers
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