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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book sheds light on the challenges faced by Irish social housing residents, including substandard living conditions and unsafe environments that harm physical and mental health. It emphasizes the ‘networks of care' and mutual aid in working-class communities and addresses the right to adequate public housing at the local level.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the life-or-death importance of housing quality and the necessity for long-term collaboration between housing and health sectors. Adopting a 'City of Care' approach, which prioritizes social capital, affordable housing, and community infrastructure, is vital. This book advocates for systemic reform that incorporates an ethics of care into all policies, a crucial step in promoting public health and social justice in Europe and beyond.
'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 of a Human Rights and a Health Approach to Housing - Rory Hearne
4. Using Law as a Tool for Change: Experience and Limitations - Mary Heavey, Clodagh Daly, and Gavin Elliot
Commentary 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 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