Homelessness: A silent killer (UK)
Homeless people die thirty years before the national average, says shocking new research from Sheffield University in the UK, commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people.
Homelessness: A silent killer, a Crisis Policy Briefing based on interim research findings by the University of Sheffield for Crisis, finds that homeless people are dying, on average, at 47 years old and women at 43 years old, in stark contrast to the average age of death for the general population which is 77 years.
Association Between Housing Affordability and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Nationally Representative Household Survey in Australia
Evidence about the mental health consequences of unaffordable housing is limited.
The authors investigated whether people whose housing costs were more than 30% of their household income experienced a deterioration in their mental health (using the Short Form 36 Mental Component Summary), over and above other forms of financial stress.
They hypothesized that associations would be limited to lower income households as high housing costs would reduce their capacity to purchase other essential nonhousing needs (for example, food).