We can do things when we try

Julia Park

Covid-19 has exposed many uncomfortable realities but it has also shown what can be achieved in a very short time, writes Julia Park

Homes, health and covid-19, a report published by the Centre for Ageing Better last September, makes sobering reading. A collaboration with The King’s Fund, it looks at the links between poor housing and poor health through the lens of the coronavirus. 

There has never been much doubt about the existence of these links, but the strength of the correlation and the depth of the regional and local disparities are a stark reminder that, without radical action, the inequalities that covid-19 has revealed and exacerbated will only worsen. 

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