Rebooting the housing crisis

摘要

When the COVID crisis finally subsides, we'll have some big housing questions to answer. Like the last major economic crisis of 2007-08, we'll need to reboot housing delivery and find ways to keep on building the homes we need. However, the questions stemming from this public health and economic crisis are more profound than the credit crunch. It's not just how do we get building again, but what do we build to meet the needs of a post-COVID society? The experience of COVID and lockdown has changed many people's relationship with their home and neighbourhood. As our travel and geography has been restricted, we've had to meet our needs from where we live. We have a sharper sense of what, in our neighbourhoods, supported our health and wellbeing and what did not. This is experience we can learn from to put health and wellbeing at the heart of new homes and new developments. There are lots of ways that our homes and neighbourhoods can be good and bad for our health, but there are two which have really come to the fore as a result of lockdown.