Safe neighbourhoods

HOUSING IS A COMPLEX ISSUE. It’s hard enough doing one-off houses, and navigating irascible clients, budgets and so forth, but a great deal more complicated when one discusses the critical role housing has in the accounting of the country’s wealth and welfare. Is there any doubt that housing, in all its manifestations, lies at the heart of our success or failure as a country? It does not take long for any discussion about the state of the nation’s well-being to turn to examining the correlation between housing and health, or housing and social equity or any number of other social measures.

Very many research papers show that poor-quality housing and housing poorly matched to occupant need have