The Pro-Housing Alliance is an alliance of organisations and individuals who believe that housing is a key social determinant of health. Health inequality cannot be addressed unless there is access to housing that is both truly affordable and healthy. It is a prerequisite for good public health, including public mental health. To find out more please read our “About” page.
The following letter, from PHA member Paul Nicolson, was published in the Guardian this morning: Housing policy represents another lack of strategy in the Queen’s speech (Editorial, 10 May). A combination of housing benefit caps, cuts and the rising prices and rents of a home will inflict ever increasing...
Two letters from PHA Members were published in the Guardian this morning: It would have been good if the secretary of state for work and pensions had “found his bottle sooner”. He has turned private landlords into the rogue elephants in the housing policy room. Land and property have...
By Prof Peter Ambrose, University Brighton The Government’s recent capping of housing benefit entitlements is already producing ‘forced migrations’ of poorer and more vulnerable households from expensive inner London suburbs to some outer suburbs – and then from some of these to towns hundreds of miles away such as...
As Chair of the Pro-Housing Alliance (see http://www.prohousingalliance.com/) I am writing to Mayoral Candidates requesting that the various stated commitments to addressing the housing problems in London be demonstrated by agreeing to the following actions should you win the election next week: Set up a project to assess the...
Letter published in The Independent, 26th April 2012: The reckless forced migration of tenants out of London, to who knows where, creates costs for the taxpayer and to the wider economy that the Treasury never estimates (“Plans to house London’s poor in Stoke attacked as ‘social cleansing“, 25 April)....
Angela Mawle is the Chief Executive of the UK Public Health Association and a member of PHA. Well, here we are eighteen months after the publication of the Government’s strategy for public health in England ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People’ and all we have heard during that time is...