Our properties are making us sick, shortening lives and stealing kids’s futures. That is the primary of two on-line gatherings in July 2024, the place we find out about how and why our properties have turn out to be websites of sickness, and the political options in the direction of reclaiming the connection between properties and well being.
Tens of millions of individuals within the UK stay in properties which might be chilly, damp, and mouldy. We will’t afford our power payments, our homes are poorly insulated, and our authorities continues to depend on soiled, costly fossil fuels. Whereas individuals get sick, power and fossil gas corporations are raking in document earnings.
Chilly and damp properties price 1000’s of lives yearly. That is the direct results of political decisions—placing revenue for shareholders and landlords above everybody’s proper to stay in a secure, heat dwelling.
We hear from audio system on how fossil fuels are powering the disaster of chilly and damp properties, how mass insulation of properties and reform of our power system is central to a simply transition, and the way organising in solidarity with tenants and communities builds energy to power change.
We additionally talk about the instruments that you might want to be taught, stress resolution makers, and construct the well being voice alongside communities—combating to win wholesome properties for all.
Audio system on the occasion embrace:
- Simon from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition & Warm This Winter campaign—EFPC is a broad group of anti-poverty, environmental, well being and housing charities, commerce unions and campaigners
- Stuart Bretherton from Fuel Poverty Action—which campaigns to guard individuals from gas poverty. We problem rip-off power corporations and unfair insurance policies that depart individuals to endure chilly properties. We take motion for heat, well-insulated properties and clear and reasonably priced power, beneath the management of individuals and communities, not non-public corporations
- Consultant from Living Rent—primarily based in Scotland, Residing Lease is a mass-membership organisation of low-middle revenue renters, working and combating collectively to win concrete enhancements to our each day lives and put political and financial energy again the place it belongs
- Scott McAulay from Architects Local weather Motion Community (ACAN) and Anthropocene Structure Faculty
- Dr Isobel Braithwaite, Medact member Public Well being Physician—presently doing analysis on Housing and Well being, Isobel has labored as a medical physician and on public well being points together with local weather change and excessive climate, air air pollution and psychological well being