Why improving social housing could be remarkably simple (and affordable)
- Written by Nicky Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Operations Management. Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
Tragedies in social housing, such as the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and the death of toddler Awaab Ishak due to damp living conditions in 2020, remain shocking. As a coroner commented at the time, “How in the UK in 2020 does a two-year-old child die as a result of exposure to mould?”
Since then developments like Awaab’s Law have...