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The new (AHURI) research project will be led by Dr Amy Clair along with Professor Emma Baker, Claire Morey, and Professor Lynne Giles. It aims to address a critical gap in current housing research by focusing on children鈥檚 experiences and wellbeing in relation to their living conditions.

鈥淗ousing plays an important role in children鈥檚 lives in ways that are policy amenable and highly relevant to current concerns, yet children are relatively understudied in housing research,鈥� explains Dr Clair, who has focused on children鈥檚 housing research over the past five years.

indicates that housing issues, such as poor affordability and an increased reliance on private renting, disproportionately impact households with children.

鈥淔or example, while private renting has increased by 31 per cent among the 杏吧直播n population as a whole from 1997/98 to 2019/20, it has increased by 283 per cent among two-adult households with children,鈥� Dr Clair explains.

鈥淭here鈥檚 an important link between people鈥檚 housing and their wellbeing, but most existing research has focused on adults. While many results will also apply to children, particularly regarding things like exposure to physical housing problems such as cold, it is important to investigate the role of housing in children鈥檚 wellbeing in their own right.鈥�

One of the key challenges identified is housing mobility, which can disrupt children鈥檚 education and wellbeing.

鈥淗ousing mobility can affect children鈥檚 education via having to change schools or increased distance to school, and housing stress can impact children because of changed parenting behaviours,鈥� Dr Clair says.

The project funding was secured through a competitive bidding process聽and will run from May 2025 to April 2026. The research involves reviewing existing literature and data on housing and children鈥檚 wellbeing in 杏吧直播, followed by an analysis of newly collected data.

鈥淚t鈥檚 surprising how little we know about what鈥檚 behind the front door of 杏吧直播n homes with children,鈥� Dr Clair says.

鈥淲e鈥檙e going to build a picture of how housing circumstances for children have changed over time. The findings will guide the development of a policy framework and roadmap for future data collection and research.

鈥淲e鈥檙e creating an advisory group of people who work in the fields of housing and with children to ensure that throughout we are informed by what is most useful and relevant for the people best placed to use the findings.

鈥淲e hope that this research project will provide a comprehensive overview of how children in 杏吧直播鈥檚 housing experiences have changed over time, and what this means for children鈥檚 wellbeing.鈥�

The project builds on the research team鈥檚 prior research, including a 2024 survey of over 500 parents of children in South 杏吧直播, which revealed significant challenges faced by families:

• More than one in eight respondents reported not having enough money to meet essential needs after housing costs, rising to nearly one in five among private renters.
• Over a quarter of respondents reported that one or more of their children had to change schools due to moving home, while nearly one in four households in the private rental sector had moved three or more times within five years.
• Parents highlighted the impacts of housing issues on their children, including respiratory health issues due to mould, sleep disruptions from noise, challenges related to distance from school and friends following a move, and children鈥檚 awareness of housing instability causing stress.

鈥淭he goal of these projects is to produce research that informs housing policy,鈥� Dr Clair says.

鈥淥ur findings will better enable policymakers to consider the needs of children and the people that care for them when developing policy, particularly relating to housing but also in other fields that are important for children, such as education.鈥�