#62: Helen Pineo - Healthy Urbanism from Planetary to Building Scales
Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
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The Connection Between Affordable Housing and Health
I haven't heard of anyone making the connection between affordability and health before but it makes perfect sense. Is that a kind of psychological mental health issue in terms of housing costs not having a negative mental health impact on people? Yeah it's so important. It can be through these kind of physical or hard mechanisms, factors like indoor air quality and environmental quality within the housing. But there's also this other side which she referred to as a softer, more meaningful side which can relate to whether you have agency to change the property to be more comfortable for you. Or if you don't have what she refers to as ontological security, so that sense that you're in a safe space that you can
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