The Five Questions Boards Must Ask if They Are Serious About Healthy Homes
10/02/2026
Jenny Danson
Most housing boards care deeply about residents. They approve investment programmes, scrutinise risk, and sign off strategies with the best of intentions. And yet, too often, health outcomes remain accidental rather than deliberate.
Repairs are done, programmes are compliant, money is spent, but residents still experience respiratory illness, mental stress, recurring damp and mould, and repeated crisis-driven interventions because of their home.
This isn’t because boards don’t care.
It’s because the wrong questions are being asked, or worse, not asked at all.
If we want healthier homes, health has to be designed into decision-making at the very top. That starts with five fundamental questions.
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