Housing charity Shelter said children in poor houses are more likely to suffer a range of problems, from disease and interrupted schooling - to poverty in later life.

“Children who grow up in bad housing are robbed of their future chances by ill-health, educational under-achievement and devastating insecurity,” said the report’s author Lisa Harker.  Those living in sub-standard homes are 25 percent more likely to fall ill, she added. (more…)

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