The Cost of Ignoring Poor Housing

This research builds on Building Research Establishment's (BRE) earlier Cost of Poor Housing Research and reveals that remedial work to England’s poorest housing (1) could provide £135.5 billion (bn) in societal benefits over the next 30 years. 

The report also covers:

• An estimate of England-wide costs and benefits of tackling, or not tackling, poor housing over the next 30 years
• As well as NHS costs, the inclusion of a wider group of societal costs and benefits than we have previously assessed
• The development of an underlying model which can be used to help councils and others to target action and resources on unsafe homes.

This research includes a wider group of societal costs and benefits than we have previously assessed. In addition, they have developed an underlying model which can be used to help councils and others to target action and resources on unsafe homes.