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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Housing is where societies declare whose lives matter.
This book brings together international scholars and practitioners to explore how inadequate housing produces avoidable harm and why today's housing crisis must also be understood as a crisis of care. Rather than treating housing as a technical or market issue, the book reframes it as an infrastructure that shapes health, dignity, democratic participation, and everyday life.
Drawing on research across public health, sociology, geography, planning, law, building science, and community practice, it introduces the City of Care as a framework for reconnecting housing, health, and public responsibility.
This timely resource offers actionable strategies to translate care into repair, public responsibility, and healthier, more just cities.
'As the authors of this book critically illustrate, little can be understood about contemporary inequality, welfare, and health without first understanding the role and impact of housing.' Richard Ronald, University of Amsterdam
'Poor housing affronts human dignity and undermines health. These essays illustrate how, and propose ways to mobilise an ethics of care against it.' Gerry Kearns, Maynooth University
Preface - Susan J. Smith
1. Why care, health, and housing? - Lidia Katia C. Manzo
Part I: Crisis, experiences, and the legislation
2. Nothing fancy, just basic rights: women, care, and housing struggles at Dublin’s Oliver Bond House - Lidia Katia C. Manzo and Gayle Cullen Doyle
3. The need for a human rights and a health approach to housing - Rory Hearne
4. Using law as a tool for change: experience, limitations, and opportunities - Mary Heavey, Clodagh Daly, and Gavin Elliot
Commentary on Part I: Social housing as a test of Care in the City - Declan Redmond
Part II: Healthy homes and communities, air quality, and the data
5. Caring neighbourhoods for ageing well in place - Hannah Grove
6. A way forward: understanding causes of, and solutions to, insanitary conditions in Oliver Bond House, Dublin - Joseph Little, Gearóid Carvill and Andy Lundberg
7. Tensions and solutions in using open data for studying urban health and environment - Kevin Credit
8. Grassroots citizen science and indoor air quality networks: tools for understanding inadequate social housing conditions - Jack R. Lehane and Jeffrey Roe
Commentary on Part II: Evidence- based interventions on care, health, and housing - Rob Kitchin
9. Placing care and repair at the heart of housing and health strategies: responsibility, governance, and the role of communities - Lidia Katia C. Manzo and Dáithí Downey