Care, Health and Housing - Crisis, Experiences and Answers

Crisis, Experiences and Answers
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7376-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

C. Manzo, Lidia Katia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Susan J.

Doyle, Gayle Cullen

Hearne, Rory

Heavey, Mary

Daly, Clodagh

Elliot, Gavin

Redmond, Declan

Grove, Hannah

Little, Joseph

Carvill, Gearóid

Lundberg, Andrew

Credit, Kevin

Lehane, Jack

Roe, Jeffrey

Kitchin, Rob

Downey, Dáithí

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kitchin, Rob
Rob Kitchin is a Professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland. He is author/editor of a number of books about technology and society and is a recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

C. Manzo, Lidia Katia
Lidia Katia C. Manzo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and EU CITY-OF-CARE Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Milan.

Lidia Katia C. Manzo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and EU CITY-OF-CARE Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Milan.