Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings What Is Happening to Housing?
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What Is Happening to Housing? Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Well-being in Diverse Global Settings
- 1 Aboriginal Social Housing in Remote Australia: Crowded, Unrepaired and Raising the Risk of Infectious Diseases
- 2 Reply to Memmott et al: It is Time for Healthy Living Priorities to be Integrated into Indigenous Housing Policy and Practice
- 3 Informal Housing and Residents’ Well-being in Caracas and Sydney: A Comparative Study of Residents’ Experiences
- 4 Reply to Gabriela Quintana Vigiola: Informal Housing Residents’ Well-being in Cities of the Global North and South
- 5 Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
- 6 Reply to Mark L.G. Jones: Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
- 7 COVID-19 and Precarious Housing: Paying Guest Accommodation in a Metropolitan Indian City
- 8 Reply to Raju Marella et al: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tenants and Operators in Marginal Housing Forms
- 9 Empowerment Through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal
- 10 Housing Temporalities: State Narratives and Precarity in the Global South
- 11 Reply to Lall: Foregrounding Livelihood and Mobility in the Struggle for Pro-Poor Urban Housing
- 12 Reply to Lall: Housing Temporalities of the Aspiring Global City
- 13 The Attributes of Social Resilience: Understanding Refugees’ Housing Choices
- 14 Reply to Perugia: Social Resilience and Refugee Housing: Questioning the Shift in Responsibility for Settlement
- Index
Introduction: What Is Happening to Housing? Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Well-being in Diverse Global Settings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What Is Happening to Housing? Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Well-being in Diverse Global Settings
- 1 Aboriginal Social Housing in Remote Australia: Crowded, Unrepaired and Raising the Risk of Infectious Diseases
- 2 Reply to Memmott et al: It is Time for Healthy Living Priorities to be Integrated into Indigenous Housing Policy and Practice
- 3 Informal Housing and Residents’ Well-being in Caracas and Sydney: A Comparative Study of Residents’ Experiences
- 4 Reply to Gabriela Quintana Vigiola: Informal Housing Residents’ Well-being in Cities of the Global North and South
- 5 Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
- 6 Reply to Mark L.G. Jones: Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
- 7 COVID-19 and Precarious Housing: Paying Guest Accommodation in a Metropolitan Indian City
- 8 Reply to Raju Marella et al: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tenants and Operators in Marginal Housing Forms
- 9 Empowerment Through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal
- 10 Housing Temporalities: State Narratives and Precarity in the Global South
- 11 Reply to Lall: Foregrounding Livelihood and Mobility in the Struggle for Pro-Poor Urban Housing
- 12 Reply to Lall: Housing Temporalities of the Aspiring Global City
- 13 The Attributes of Social Resilience: Understanding Refugees’ Housing Choices
- 14 Reply to Perugia: Social Resilience and Refugee Housing: Questioning the Shift in Responsibility for Settlement
- Index
Summary
The criticality of housing and its impacts on human health and well-being have been noted for decades. Indeed, the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Universal Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948, states unequivocally that:
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him[them]self and of his [their] family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his [their] control. (United Nations, 1948: Article 25, edits and emphasis ours)
Written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, this declaration was shaped by that monumental global event and the fragility of everyday people within it. It is a vision for a better world. Yet, in the current global setting, as economies recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and face new challenges, including ongoing instability from the Israel-Gaza conflict and war in Ukraine, the effects of increasing climate crisis-induced severe weather events and the stuttering global economic situation, a severe housing crisis remains. Indeed, across both the Global North and South, and irrespective of national economic status, we see how this promise to provide a minimum standard of housing for every global citizen has not been kept.
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