Housing in England and Scotland : Comparing Scottish Data with English Analysis by the Resolution Foundation

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Congreve, Emma (2024) Housing in England and Scotland : Comparing Scottish Data with English Analysis by the Resolution Foundation. Scottish Health Equity Research Unit, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00090482)

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Abstract

One of the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit’s aims is to analyse how different policies in different parts of the UK have shaped outcomes. Replicating existing analysis presents a good opportunity to look at issues that matter most elsewhere in the UK and to provide a companion analysis for Scotland. The Resolution Foundation paper was part of their General Election programme of analysis and the analysis was focused on England (housing is a devolved issue). The themes they discussed remain of interest in England post General Election for the new UK Government and are also high up the agenda in Scotland. Housing has key implications for health outcomes. Issues with housing affordability and the quality of lower cost housing stock have direct implications for both physical and mental health. Moreover, unstable housing situations can create difficulties for families trying to find stability. Therefore, housing policy is a key tool for mitigating health inequalities, and as a devolved area, the Scottish Government have a lot of control over what happens. This paper moves through a series of themes related to housing that were presented in the original Resolution Foundation analysis for England. Our aim is to provide a sense of similarities and differences between the Scottish and English experiences. We finish with some reflections on what governments across the UK can learn from policy choices made.

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Congreve, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6845-316X;
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