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Mental health and the experience of housing problems involving rights
- Authors:
- PLEASENCE Pascoe, BALMER Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- People Place and Policy Online, 2(1), 2008, Online only
- Publisher:
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
The incidence of housing problems involving rights is linked closely to long-term illness/disability and broader social exclusion. Drawing on data from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey this article explores the extent to which housing rights problems and mental illness co-occur, and the causal connections between them. After controlling for a range of social and demographic predictors, significant associations were found between housing rights problems and mental illness. It was also found that housing rights problems were often reported to lead to stress related illness. It is argued that effective co-ordination of mental health and housing rights advice services is likely to improve both health and justice outcomes.