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Building mental health

Access to warm, dry, secure, long-term housing is key to mental health. 360info explores housing policy, residential green space and the meaning of ‘home’.

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Greening the city to prevent mental illness

Trees, grass and greenery lower the risk of mental health problems. It’s a lesson city planners need to learn.

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Inside out: why Balinese homes are so loved

Communal spaces and a connection to the outdoors make traditional Balinese homes a template for the green design of the future.

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A place to breathe in jam-packed Jakarta

Jakarta’s high-rise settlements are the most crowded places in Southeast Asia. New community centres provide vital outdoor space for a hemmed-in population.

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Putting the heart back into home

The process of allocating housing to the homeless in the UK involves a calculus in which the emotional concept of ‘home’ does not feature.

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Rethinking prisons for the people they house

Maggie’s are health centres designed to be beautiful and healing. Prisons could learn something from their design principles.

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Being housed is not the same as having a home

‘Home’ is not only a place to sleep. Well-being comes from the social aspects of home just as much as from four walls and a roof.

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How cold is too cold? Getting home temperatures right

Policies worldwide focus on heating homes to a minimum temperature that has no evidence to support it. They cause vulnerable people needless distress.

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No place to call home: Tongans hard hit by New Zealand’s housing crisis

Tongans are being pushed to extremes as affordable housing grows scarce. New Zealand needs a Pacific Housing Strategy to address this escalating crisis.

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Governments want babies, but people want choices

Autoimmune diseases are on the rise

Sports face a reckoning on brain injuries

Building mental health

Greening the city to prevent mental illness

Inside out: why Balinese homes are so loved

A place to breathe in jam-packed Jakarta

Putting the heart back into home

Rethinking prisons for the people they house

How cold is too cold? Getting home temperatures right

No place to call home: Tongans hard hit by New Zealand’s housing crisis

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