Housing disadvantage and poor mental health: a systematic review

A Singh, L Daniel, E Baker, R Bentley - American journal of preventive …, 2019 - Elsevier
Context This study reviews collective evidence on the longitudinal impact of housing
disadvantage (based on tenure, precarity, and physical characteristics) on mental health. It …

Housing: An under-explored influence on children's well-being and becoming

A Clair - Child Indicators Research, 2019 - Springer
Research on housing has tended to focus on adult outcomes, establishing relationships
between housing and a number of aspects of health and well-being. Research exploring the …

'Trapped','anxious' and 'traumatised': COVID-19 intensified the impact of housing inequality on Australians' mental health

M Bower, C Buckle, E Rugel… - … Journal of Housing …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Increased time spent at home during COVID-19 exposed inequities in Australian housing
quality and availability. Many Australians lack sufficient space to carry out activities shifted to …

Introduction of a national minimum wage reduced depressive symptoms in low‐wage workers: a quasi‐natural experiment in the UK

A Reeves, M McKee, J Mackenbach… - Health …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Does increasing incomes improve health? In 1999, the UK government implemented
minimum wage legislation, increasing hourly wages to at least£ 3.60. This policy experiment …

Housing affordability and residential mobility as drivers of locational inequality

E Baker, R Bentley, L Lester, A Beer - Applied geography, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper applies established methods from population geography to assess the impact of
Australia's emerging housing affordability crisis in sha** the distribution of Australia's …

The 'double precarity'of employment insecurity and unaffordable housing and its impact on mental health

R Bentley, E Baker, Z Aitken - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper describes who is most likely to experience household employment insecurity and
housing affordability stress–double precarity–and estimates the degree to which housing …

Generation Rent and housing precarity in 'post crisis' Ireland

R Waldron - Housing studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recent years have witnessed the rapid decline in homeownership across a number of
developed societies and the growth of an increasingly unaffordable and insecure private …

The impacts of housing characteristics and built-environment features on mental health

Z Kan, MP Kwan, MK Ng, H Tieben - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we examined the relationships between housing characteristics, neighborhood
built-environment features, and people's mental health in Hong Kong, an Asian city well …

Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe

A Clair, A Reeves, M McKee… - Journal of European …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
There are concerns that the recovery from the Great Recession in Europe has left growing
numbers of people facing precarious housing situations. Yet, to our knowledge, there is no …

Mental health and prolonged exposure to unaffordable housing: a longitudinal analysis

E Baker, L Lester, K Mason, R Bentley - Social psychiatry and psychiatric …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose When housing is insufficient, or poor quality, or unaffordable there are well
established health effects. Despite the pervasiveness of housing affordability problems …