Analysis: The real cost of housing

Nursery World, 31 January 2008

The high cost of housing has negative effects on children all the way down the line from owner-occupier families to the homeless, as Annette Rawstrone discovers.

The ups and downs of the property market and lack of affordable housing is a national obsession. Over the years the problems caused by poor living conditions - families who are homeless because they cannot afford escalating rents and are on council waiting lists, and those living on deprived estates - have been well documented. But not as publicised are the negative effects that housing unaffordability can have on those who are already on...

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