{"id":15287,"date":"2019-09-23T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:33:00","slug":"more-than-8-million-people-in-england-are-living-in-unsuitable-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/more-than-8-million-people-in-england-are-living-in-unsuitable-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 8 million people in England are living in unsuitable homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the National Housing Federation, an estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Untitled-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Untitled-7.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Untitled-7-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Untitled-7-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Untitled-7-600x390.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The housing crisis impacted all ages and it included people facing issues such as overcrowded housing or not being able to afford their rent or mortgage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The research was carried out by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and used data from the annual\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingsociety.ac.uk\/\">Understanding Society survey<\/a> of 40,000 people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The research estimated:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.6 million people are living in an overcrowded home<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.5 million are unable to afford their rent or mortgage<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.5 million are in &#8220;hidden households&#8221; they cannot afford to move out of, including house shares, adults living with their parents, or people living with an ex-partner<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.7 million are in unsuitable housing such as older people stuck in homes they cannot get around and families in properties which have no outside space<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.4 million are in poor quality homes<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">400,000 are homeless or at risk of homelessness (people sleeping rough, living in homeless shelters, temporary accommodation or sofa-surfing)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Kate Henderson, Chief Executive at the National Housing Federation, said:<\/strong> &#8220;Millions of people are being pushed into debt and poverty because rent is too expensive, children can&#8217;t study because they have no space in their overcrowded homes, and many older or disabled people are struggling to move around their own home because it&#8217;s unsuitable.This crisis cannot be solved by tweaks around the edges of the housing market.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One in seven people are affected in some way this could be homeless, overcrowding or in debt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said:<\/strong> \u201cHousing is a priority for this government and last year we built more homes than in all but one of the last 31 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSince 2010 we\u2019ve delivered 430,000 affordable homes and to protect renters we\u2019ve cracked down on rogue landlords, banned unfair fees and capped deposits, saving at least \u00a3240m a year \u2013 helping to ensure access to safe and secure housing for millions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Housing Federation, an estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home.\u00a0 The housing crisis impacted all ages and it included people facing issues such as overcrowded housing or not being able to afford their rent or mortgage.\u00a0 The research was carried out by Heriot-Watt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":15289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1703,101,1689],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-housing","tag-uk","tag-uk-homes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}