City Know-hows
Generating awareness and evidence of existing housing conditions and their health impacts are fundamental. That makes it possible to collaborate across sectors and with stakeholders, establishing effective enforcement and tackling issues concerning private rights.
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Target audience
Policy makers, urban leaders, expert groups on housing
The problem
There is a lack of housing policy that stipulates requirements for health. A recent publication from WHO, its Housing and Health Guidelines re-focuses us all on the need to consider housing when providing healthy environments.
What we did and why
We completed a review of the literature that discussed the development and implementation of healthy housing policy, to understand what worked and to guide the development of this policy area.
Our study’s contribution
Our evidence review sets out lessons for those who are working in housing and health to take forward and then enable better policy development and implementation.
Impacts for city policy and practice
What enables health housing policy development and implementation?
We need to
Further information
Full research article:
Getting to effective housing policy for health: a thematic synthesis of policy development and implementation by Emily Nix, Andrew Ibbetson, Ke Zhou, Michael Davies, Paul Wilkinson, Ramona Ludolph, and Helen Pineo.
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