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Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
  • What Is Happening to Housing?
  • Edited by Kelly Greenop, Johanna Brugman Alvarez
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    26 May 2025
  • This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types. Chapters offer fresh insights into how housing affects wellbeing in terms of physical and mental health, identity and participation in communities.

  • Introduction: What Is Happening to Housing? Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Well-being in Diverse Global Settings

  • Edited by Kelly Greenop, University of Queensland, Johanna Brugman Alvarez, University of Auckland
  • Book:
    Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
    Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    26 May 2025, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    The criticality of housing and its impacts on human health and well-being have been noted for decades. Indeed, the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Universal Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948, states unequivocally that:

    Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him[them]self and of his [their] family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his [their] control. (United Nations, 1948: Article 25, edits and emphasis ours)

    Written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, this declaration was shaped by that monumental global event and the fragility of everyday people within it. It is a vision for a better world. Yet, in the current global setting, as economies recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and face new challenges, including ongoing instability from the Israel-Gaza conflict and war in Ukraine, the effects of increasing climate crisis-induced severe weather events and the stuttering global economic situation, a severe housing crisis remains. Indeed, across both the Global North and South, and irrespective of national economic status, we see how this promise to provide a minimum standard of housing for every global citizen has not been kept.