Download or read book The Real Cost of Poor Housing written by Mike Roys and published by Building Research Establishment. This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights weaknesses in existing models of the housing stock and proposes a new model intended to overcome them. The model uses data from the English House Condition Survey to illustrate the effects of various scenarios and repair options. Encourages all the hazards measured in the survey to be compared, and identifies repair solutions which provide direct benefit to the NHS through reduced injury rates and treatment costs.- publisher.