{"id":131385,"date":"2023-08-15T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=131385"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:52:21","slug":"135-5bn-saved-improving-poor-quality-housing-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/135-5bn-saved-improving-poor-quality-housing-england\/131385\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3135.5bn could be saved by improving poor quality housing in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A survey from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) found that fixing poor quality housing in England could bring in \u00a3135.5bn of benefit to the country over the next 30 years<\/h2>\n<p>The benefits of improving poor-quality housing include saving money for the health system, lowering energy bills and pollution, increasing property valuable, and creating better job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The BRE report, titled &#8220;The Cost of Ignoring Poor Housing,&#8221; examines the extent to which poor-quality housing has affected society in England. The BRE is a multi-disciplinary building science centre that aims to improve buildings and infrastructure through research.<\/p>\n<h3>Unsafe housing in England is rife<\/h3>\n<p>In England, around 2.4m homes are deemed to be unsafe and unhealthy to live in, and it would cost \u00a39bn to repair these buildings. If they were repaired, the BRE estimated that \u00a313bn could be saved for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/1-6bn-construction-consultancy-framework-agreement-nhs-sbs\/131300\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The health system spends over \u00a31bn every treating people who have become sick due to poor-quality housing.<\/p>\n<p>The BRE has created a model to show how money saved by improving England\u2019s poor-quality housing could be spent. According to the BRE&#8217;s research, improving 65,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/tackling-damp-and-mould-in-the-social-housing-sector\/121842\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homes with serious damp and mould<\/a> issues would cost around \u00a3250m. If repaired, \u00a34.8bn could be saved over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur analysis is a clear signal to policymakers that investing in the health and safety of England\u2019s poor housing will deliver significant, long-term economic and societal benefits,\u201d said Gillian Charlesworth, CEO of the BRE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproving poor housing has huge implications for the life chances of the families who live in those homes and benefits society as a whole. Whether it\u2019s a young family living with cold, dampness and mould, or an older person at risk from falls, nobody should live in a home that\u2019s unsafe,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<h3>How did the BRE conduct their research?<\/h3>\n<p>The research builds on the \u2018Full cost of poor housing\u2019 report published by the BRE in 2021. The researchers used data from the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/english-housing-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English Housing Survey<\/a> and NHS treatment costs to make future projections.<\/p>\n<p>The BRE defines a poor-quality home as a \u2018dwelling that fails to meet the statutory minimum standard of housing in England\u2019. This includes homes that have one or more Category 1 HHSRS hazards. There are 29 recognised HHSRS hazards, 26 of which are evaluated in the English Housing Survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research shows there is much more than a moral case for tackling unsafe homes. There is also a powerful economic argument for England and the UK to deliver the improvements needed through targeted and timely programmes of work to reap the financial payback,\u201d concluded Charlesworth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) found that fixing poor quality housing in England could bring in \u00a3135.5bn of benefit to the country over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[283,569,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-finance","8":"tag-housing-standards","9":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a3135.5bn could be saved by improving poor quality housing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fixing England&#039;s poor quality housing could create \u00a3135.5bn benefits in 30 years, according to a survey from the BRE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/135-5bn-saved-improving-poor-quality-housing-england\/131385\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00a3135.5bn could be saved by improving poor quality housing in England\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A survey from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) found that fixing poor quality housing in England could bring in \u00a3135.5bn of benefit to the country over the next 30 years.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/135-5bn-saved-improving-poor-quality-housing-england\/131385\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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