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What are the wider impacts of improving the quality of rented homes (e.g. the impact on well-being, health outcomes, landlords, renters, and the housing market)?

Background

Including seeking to boost our evidence and understanding of what drives housing affordability, and how transitions and changes in people’s lives affect that

Next steps

The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

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