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FB 23 Real cost of poor housing
Publication Year
2010
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Highlights weaknesses in existing models of the housing stock and proposes a new model intended to overcome them. The model uses data from the English House Condition Survey to illustrate the effects of various scenarios and repair options. Encourages all the hazards measured in the survey to be compared, and identifies repair solutions which provide direct benefit to the NHS through reduced injury rates and treatment costs.
Document History
To be read in conjunction with IP16/10 (Quantifying the cost of poor housing).
Author
Roys, M. et al
ISBN
9781848061156
Publisher Information
BRE
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