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STAY AT HOME : housing and home in the uk during the covid-19 pandemic by Becky (Centre for Housing Policy, University of York) Tunstall is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is STAY AT HOME : housing and home in the uk during the covid-19 pandemic about?

Household and home played an important role in the COVID-19 pandemic round the world. Billions were told to ‘stay home’ to prevent infection. This book uses a wealth of data from the UK to explore the influence of housing on the pandemic, and the pandemic on housing. It describes the key events of the pandemic in the UK, and key policies on staying home, income support, housing security and housing markets. Pre-pandemic, most people in the UK were well-housed but there were significant inequalities, overcrowding, poor quality, unaffordability and insecurity. Household and home affected the effectiveness of ‘stay home’ and the risk of infection and death, as well as wider experiences of the pandemic. The book describes being at home, how people adapted to greater occupancy and more activities at home, and to ‘shielding’ and ‘isolating’. It describes the impact of the pandemic on paid work, income and living standards, on domestic work, care at home, physical and mental health, on housing security, evictions, repossessions, homelessness, construction, sales and house prices, and on the meaning of home. In conclusion, the pandemic only added to pre-pandemic weaknesses, inequality and

Who reads STAY AT HOME : housing and home in the uk during the covid-19 pandemic?

Author

Becky (Centre for Housing Policy, University of York) Tunstall

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447365891

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Sociology