Building mental health

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’.

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

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

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‘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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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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